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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Oneplus privacy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Apook400@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Looking for some help with my Oneplus Nord CE3 Lite. I have had this phone for a couple months and looking to harden this phone make it a safe privacy friendly phone and avoid the constant monitoring and spying and being tracked and monitored. I want to limit the surveillance and monitoring best i can with this phone. Not interested in CUSTOM ROM and there isnt any available for my phone right now. So what is my options without that and how do i make this a safe phone?

Thanks

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[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely avoid using Google products as much as possible. Use Aurora and F-Droid to install apps.

F-Droid at least will have basic open source apps that replace things like your SMS messenger and phone launcher as examples

[–] mineapple@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The google services are preinstalled they'll send data nonetheless

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

You can disable a good amount of the apps, does that prevent it from sending data?

Google Play Services is probably the only one that you'll still have to leave on unfortunately. Full privacy isn't going to be obtainable this route

[–] Apook400@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What VPN should i use for this phone?

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter, as VPNs don't significantly contribute to privacy protection.

[–] ober@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

From my experience Mullvad is the way to go for privacy. They're only about $5 USD a month and have a great app available from F-Droid.