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Point is, you are punishing the victims of the system, not the perpetrators.

I had an issue with one banking app, but that might be because I had the second degoogled user going at that time as I tried to see how some of my apps worked that didn’t have any data on if they work or not.

I also had issues with a game called Root, Play store suddenly said it was not compatible but I installed via Aurora while spoifing a different phone and it continues to work fine.

There were some minor hiccups on some apps that were fixed by disabling some exploit protections built into Graphene (a simple Exploit protection compatibility mode toggle in the app settings).

Overall I’m really happy and if I wasn’t concerned about Google further closing down the Android ecosystem, I wouldn’t be considering switching. I never had a situation where I thought I’d be better off on stock Android

You are right. Though it’s not entirely on Google, but also on whoever develops/publishes the app. It can be done without reliance on Google, it’s just easier to use their stuff aa a crutch (at least that’s what I’ve been told.

I use GrapheneOS (with their sandboxed Google Play) and I had minimal issues. On completely degoogled one there was more issues, but something that could be worked around. I imagine with microG it would be smoother (Graphene doesn’t allow it so I couldn’t test).

It is harder than stock Android for sure but I’ll be damned if I just give up. It’s now a matter of principle for me now.

And yes, Linux will be likely even harder but I’m considering it for my next step at this point - exactly because Google is making it harder on Androids and I feel like if you want to really escape their data-hungry fingers you just need to get out of their reach as much as possible. And while there isn’t the same ecosystem available as Android has, there are workarounds for now.

You can run Android apps via Waydroid. And there are ways to run the apps seamlesly, without needing to open waydroid -Droidian does this for example (I had unfortunately some tech issues with Droidian so didn’t test it much.

The already mentioned SailfishOS should have something that allows seamless Android app integration as well.

There is still the issue of some apps not working on deGoogled Android though, Waydroid basically runs LineageOS if I’m not mistaken. I assume microG would be possible but I have yet to try it.