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And it's very much appreciated. It's rare to see this approach these days.

If anyone's curious, this is what the Tracker Control app on my phone shows for the Lichess and chesscom Android apps:

Yes on most smartphones.
It is way better to use Lineage or some variation of AOSP. It's fully open-source and it doesn't ship with Google / manufacturer tracking and bloat.
Yes, but that would be difficult. If you stick to a tutorial, there won't be a problem.
I don't understand how warranty has anything to do with privacy... Anyways, using open-source apps and using a tracker blocker are already good ways to improve privacy.

The biggest issue with root is that you will lose OTA updates, meaning you'll have to install updates from Odin (and meaning you will also loose root and TWRP each time).

You can debloat without rooting: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tool-adb-appcontrol-v1-6-3-app-manager-debloat-tool-for-android.4147837/

You can block the ads & trackers without rooting: https://trackercontrol.org/

So the S20 FE is the first phone that I haven't rooted, and I must say it's not a big deal.

Danke für den Tip. Ich habe bereits mit ADB alle Apps gelöscht, die ich nicht benötige. Youtube Vanced nutze ich auch schon.

Aurora Store. Das nutzt den Google Store. Man kann sich anonym anmelden und Apps runterladen. Wenn man möchte, kann man sich auch mit eigenem Google Konto anmelden. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

Ich nutze noch die Tracker Control App. Das ist eine Art Firewall, die Verbindungen zu bekannten Tracker blockiert. Man kann aber eine App auch komplett den Zugriff auf das Internet verwehren, wenn gewollt. Gibt es natürlich nicht im Play Store. https://trackercontrol.org/

>Chrome these days has native adblocking strong enough that you don't really need to use a plugin to do it and it's incorporated into mobile.

Are you being serious? Chrome's native adblocking is trash, and doesn't actually block trackers. Google's primary source of profit is ads. Do you seriously believe they block ads better than ublock or Firefox? Have you even tried it?

>That doesn't work when you're inside someone's app (navigating with your browser works, of course).

Here:

https://trackercontrol.org/

Install that, let it run, it blocks the urls that serve ads.

I've used them both.

The underlying network analysis functionality of TC is provided by the NetGuard Firewall, developed by Marcel Bokhorst.

In my experience the significant difference between the two is TC ad-blocks using host files.

NG provides more granular control of access denial to your Wi-Fi and/or mobile connection.

I think both are good apps for the privacy aware.

I believe Calyx is working on a built-in tracker blocking function (someone mentioned it in the thread I listed above but I haven't found much more about it). But you can also root it as far as I know. I have not tried it however, and if you do root it you will have to keep the bootloader unlocked. So you will lose that benefit.

I personally also hate trackers and ads. There's tracker control which blocks trackers by offering a fake VPN, it works pretty well for me. I also use Firefox as my main browser with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

But neither option is Bromite, of course! I've never tried that so I don't know if it's better.

This can either be based on your IP, phone fingerprint but most likely, I believe they're using your device's Advertising ID to communicate. Each phone, whether Android or iOS, has a unique Advertising ID that the apps can access and then pass the data back and forth using this identifier. On iOS, Apple enabled tracking protection so apps have to get permission from you to access this unique ID. If you disallow permission, apps will see all 0s in your ID rendering it ineffective. On android, Google has buried this in settings. If you're on android, go to Settings -> Privacy and somewhere you will find an option for 'Ads'. Reset your advertising ID and opt out of it. Note that apps can still access your advertising ID because for Google, opting out means telling the app that the user has opted out but they can use the ID anyway if they want to. But try it out anyway.

If you're on Android, I highly suggest you to use the ultimate tracking protection tool developed by a team from Oxford, TrackerControl. It's completely open source and automatically stops all apps from calling any tracking service. Heck you can even cut off internet access for apps like GBoard to be more on the safe side.

Not open-source -> hard to know if how secure and private they are.

About privacy: remove internet from this app, and it can't (directly at least) phone home. To test privacy while leaving them internet access, you'll need to do packet capture: https://trackercontrol.org 's app is pretty good at this. The more thorough option is to setup Wireshark on a laptop and connect your phone to that laptop's internet.

Openboard is pretty good if your main language is english. Florisboard is pretty nice too for other languages, but none are as nice to use as Gboard

MicroG is not that big of a deal if your are not logged in, as mentioned earlier.

Many apps still use Google trackers and analytics tools. You can give them a hard time by using tracker control.

Thanks for your links.

Yeah I've debloated the phone a lot with adb. I'll check Trackercontrol.org. This is the first phone I haven't rooted either.

That's why my question was about battery life. I'm willing to root it only if someone can prove that the Exynos mediocre battery life can be improved with some tool or anything.