I’ve been looking into moving towards a more privacy friendly OS on my phones; I’ve been deGoogling my phones to the maximum extension I can manage, deactivating stock apps and putting in as much FOSS possible.
But what other options are there out there?
I don’t want to go full out into Linux Phone territory, as I am not tech savvy enough to maintain a phone on that line, and I have two bank and a carrier applications I would like to keep using.
As I write this, Murena and their /e/ OS seems to be a good option, as they have some accessibly priced equipments and the OS itself seems to be a clean(er) Android.
Have you tried microG? It’s a foss implementation of play services that supports firebase notifications.
I’ve tried and somehow it fails to install.
microG pretends to be google play services, so if your phone has that spyware on it then I’m pretty sure you’ll have to uninstall it before you can install microG.