• ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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    1 year ago

    (Galnet) MIUI at one point used to be the ROM to install back in the day.

    Now, typing from this Mi 11 meme it’s a whole different kettle of fish. Security app is what I would call snake oil leaning for towards spyware, then all the other uninstallable apps from MIUI are tracking apps / dupes.

    To be honest though being able to uninstall YouTube should be a given but Google won’t allow that either, even though it’s a “website”.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, so much yes!
      I never dabbled in ROM installation, but I really felt the bad things going on with the MIUI once I tried it, it’s such a shame because the hardware is so good for the price and it’s funny that it wouldn’t have cost them more to put a stock Android, that would have most likely worked better, but then they wouldn’t have got their hands on that sweet sweet data…

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        1 year ago

        I got rid of the ads already systemwide with NextDNS, though I never had them in system apps (maybe a regional thing?). About root, I prefer to stay away from it for the security implications, but if I had a simple button to install DivestOS on this phone I would click it immediately

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          1 year ago

          Not only security implications, it’s also the time sink and apps crying about Safetynet being unable to be passed I find the Pihole + browser extensions / Tampermonkey etc somewhat of a sweet compromise.

          I keep getting nagged by someone to try either AdGuard or NextDNS on my Pi but also…lazy/busy at work :(

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            1 year ago

            I think that’s a fine setup!
            Also, isn’t Pihole the nerdy way to do it? I thought NextDNS was the lazy route XD