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I'm using a Pixel 6 Pro right now, and I'm looking around to see if there are any good phones. However, I have heard that there are ads in the newer flagship phones (Samsung, Xiaomi). I am willing to spend around USD$750 on a new phone, but I just don't want any crazy ads or preinstalled apps like Facebook. Are there phones that don't suck nowadays? I can buy a phone that is sold in the US, Canada, or EU.

(I don't want to go through menus to disable ads (Xiaomi), and I'm currently looking at phones other than the Pixel lineup to see if there's a better option for me)
(I also don't want to mess around with custom bootloaders/systems, I rely on Google services way too much)

EDIT: If it wasn't clear enough, I am not looking for things like GrapheneOS or LineageOS or others, I am looking for a phone and judging based on the stock system on it.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Sounds pretty sweet to me… got a dialer with built in call recording.

I can install a 3rd party app store without moving to the EU and waiting 4 more years.

You can Dee-Google it by hacking the matrix with some ASOPs and pay $7 a month for a proton mail account while crying into your open office.

Run some McAafs~~f~~eey antivirus for that hit of early 90’s nostalgia, or Norton if you’re really old and miss the 80’s ;-)

Firefox with a real uBlock plugin would be pretty sweet? Do they have that working yet?

I’m thinking pay-as-you-go burner but… oh right, android smart phone… I’m old and forgot what I was doing for a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Try librewolf for browsing it's a privacy oriented fork of firefox and I have ublock on it also I suggest nextdns for ad and tracker blocking on your whole phone and even router

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I’ll give it a look. I generally just use Firefox and uBlock when I have a choice.

I’m running Techtinium right now for DNS privacy, any killer features in NextDNS that made you pick it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sorry, as I was corrected in another comment, I meant Mull not Librewolf. Librewolf is on my PC and Mull on android. I also use an iPhone in which case I have the Orion browser from Kagi...

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