I’m about to degoogle my stock Android phone. For the past few years, I’ve used it to handle the non-open source apps that I don’t want running on my main phone. As I’ve finally weaned off GApps, I realize that I might as well go degoogle the rom as well.

edit: to be clear, I’ll be using sandboxed Play services on GOS

But since that phone is my compatibility guinea pig, is it likely I’ll still run into an app that demands unmodded Android with no alternatives? In your experience, has any bank or other service required the app on regular Android, with no alternative for the desktop, browser, etc?

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Uber/lyft. You can use uber via the web but not lyft. If uber ever stops working on web then thats it.

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I was about to correct you because I’ve done lyft on web, but it looks like it’s not supported anymore.

https://ride.lyft.com/not-supported

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Yeah, that’s the unfortunate thing. It used to be supported, but they’ve killed it.

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Lyft works fine with sandboxed GFS on GrapheneOS, though.

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But the OP specifically said DeGoogled ROM, which would mean no GFS.

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Yeah. I don’t mean to correct you. Just trying to give a full picture for folks reading along.

Lyft is a necessity for me, so I couldn’t have switched to GrapheneOs without it.

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