Using Degoogled Phone Isn't as Hard as You Might Think | BlackPirateX
<h2 id="what-is-a-degoogled-phone">What is a degoogled phone?</h2> <p>Vanilla Android is <a href="https://blog.blackpiratex.com/tags/FOSS/">FOSS</a> (Free and OpenSource Software), but the android that you get preinstalled in most phones isn’t completely FOSS. It has a blackbox, which is called Google Play Services. A lot of android apps and all google apps relies on this. Sure it provides features like instant notification, but privacy is a nightmare. Degoogling a phone means removing this blackbox, by installing a different flavour of Android which doesn’t ship with Google Play Services by default. LineageOs is a popular example.</p>