I remember when i installed a custom rom on my Motorola moto g first generation, i forgot to install google apps and battery lasted for 2 days, and that day i realized that google do more on the background
An important distinction: /e/ didn't start from AOSP, aka the "scratch" of Android. They started from forking LineageOS, and benefited from the de-googling and optimizations already done by Lineage contributors. This is why they could focus on beautifying the UI, adding branding, making their app store, and removing extra Google stuff Lineage didn't remove in order to replace it with their own implementations. I still think /e/ adds a fair amount of value to its Lineage base, though. It's precisely because they already had a good base that they could build good stuff on top it. The beauty of open source!
At the end of the day it doesn't matter. If you do not provide access to one of the 2 big AppStores, you need a BIIIIIG Appstore with all important Apps yourself. If you don't have it, you fail. I mean if Blackberry and Microsoft both fail, because of this exact issue, the e project is going to fail for sure.
Which version of Android and what date was it released? lol, as mobile history is being written. Plenty of OS'es to choose from, but it depends on your device and SoC. Open Hardware is still a little lagging.
@@abubkurian1625 Abu is right, just because it has a linux kernel it doesn't mean that android adhers to linux distros general philosophy. Google's android has added many closed source proprietary parts to the android ecosystem. So yes, android is open source but google is strangelholding its ecosystem
Ikr, today I literally found a remote control app that needed access to my phone’s IMEI number. Wasn’t born yesterday, deleted that shit right away lmao.
@@NijiDash I've never used a xiaomi before but if you do abit of reading online they seem to be more trustworthy than companies like huawei and whatever the parent company is of oppo vivo and oneplus
That’s what brought me here. About to trash my iPhone. Done with apple google amazon microsoft and all the rest. And waiting on a dip to buy into Bitcoin. Huge learning curve tho.
@@dopechannoodles9791 I’m in the same boat. I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Nice phone, but i can’t support Apple anymore. I need to find another phone similar, but with tons more privacy. Any idea what might be a good alternative?
/e/ foundation has a history of bad open source behavior. The OS is a fork of a _really_ old build of LineageOS (not that forking is an issue, it's just out-of-date), they shamelessly remove credits from Lineage code, and everything on /e/ can probably be achieved on LineageOS in under 10 minutes manually
Thanks for the useful information! I was about to post the question about if the "e account" was something forced or optional; the moment i listened about it on the video, i immediately thought of it as suspicious.
@@openlink9958 android phones and iOS phones use push services to receive notifications from web. Like what’s app messaging etc. it plays a huge roll in battery life. But you won’t receive messages
Just put a firewall on your phone, allow what you want blovk everything else. Ive used it for yearrrs more recently google force the phone to try and restart around midnight and dump the firewall. So i turn data off etc.
I'd love to see some benchmarks between this phone and it's google counter-part, i always wondered just how much processing power and battery these google services take up and if disabling them would make a noticeable difference or not.
I subscribed. Also thanks for giving credit to the musical artist/song. If I like the the music, I like to know who it is. I'm sure they want to be known as well.
Great video. A full Linux OS phone will happen when primary development switches from x86 to ARM. Until then, /e/ is the best thing going for people who are tired of corporations selling your data. The only issue now is getting privacy-respecting hardware.
Thanks. This is what I needed to kick the effort off the start line. Purchased (bit damaged) old S9 to test, if I like it, I'll grab the S9+ from /e/. Thanks a lot!
Nice video! I never understood Google Services... It slows down all the system just to open apps you could use directly from the browser... It's stupid.
This is a great video. We'll done. Thanks for sharing. Apple and Google have their teeth in everyone, and our data should be our data. Part of me feels a project such as this, could be bought up by a major phone manufacturer highlighting the advantages of being decoupled from Google. We need a major phone manufacturer to do this in my opinion. LG, Sony, even Samsung could do this and I think it would really take off.
Really interesting to see that these projects are coming out. And I'm really planning on switching to them in the future. Or use my older devices and just put that OS on it instead of buying something new. Enough options that respect the user and their privacy to choose from if you ask me.
I just stumbled over this blog. This is great news. I'm not tech savvy though, so I'd have to wait for the installer app. I'm over these tech giants. Open source is the way to go. Keep on working on the installer. You will get my business.
This is pretty cool. The ultimate would be if you can run android in a virtual machine. Turn on VM when you need to use a google app, or another low privacy app, then turn it back off when you’re done. Even if the controls for the host OS take up a bit of room on the screen somewhere, most of the modern phones have enough screen real estate for that anyway. Plus, if you ever upgrade the phone, running the VM on the new phone would be as easy as copying the file to the new phone.
The permissions on Android always annoyed me. I wish there was an option to install the package and not give it all the permissions it want. Like activate and deactivate them as I need to use this or that. Like allow camera in the web browser. If don't allow the site will say something like. Sorry this feature is not working. Bla bla.
OnePlus phones are quite nice on this. It'll ask if you want to give permission x for app y. It also more specifically gives that third and to me most interesting option "deny if program is running in background".
Now that I have read thru the review, I will watch it. Very well written, informative & anytime I see "open source" my antennas start vibrating. Like Mozilla with the T-Rex Hammer & Sickle "stand alone" installer.
The original idea is right, but the work is badly done & i'd recommand using CalyxOS or even LineageOS instead of this OS that is a big security hole filled with bugs
It’s far from badly done. I’ve been using it for months and it’s stable, and polished. Other roms aren’t close in terms of what they remove from Google.
It also looks like the /E/ OS weather app is showing Brest as mostly cloudy, which by nature is an improvement versus the Android/IOS phones always listing rainy or showers... 🤔 Jokes aside the OS looks very interesting and definitely matching an increasing demand. Great videos as always! Keep up with the great work.
This is better. /e/ are not magicians, nanodroid would accomplish something similar if you ran it in lineage, /e/ apps are proven insecure and send personal data over plaintext. BEWARE
@@SpaceTimeBeing_ It's pretty highly degoogled imo. I noticed quite many misbehaves because of those missing features from g's services.Though I can't say/claim it's 100%
Great, i have transformed my S8 to this operating system, and it looks indeed a little bit basic, but everything works fine and am very happy with it!..thanks!
9:43 Google Firebase Analytics, Google Admob It's almost impossible to find bigger apps without anything Google related IMO. Obviously, since they are for Android.
Phones are the current frontier on pushing against Google and Facebook; but I think the key is efficient containers and limiting the amount of data matched from different sources. I can't see neither the public choosing to move past Facebook's apps and Google's services, nor those companies willingly giving up permissions or access to personal data. So we need one android that can effectively allow usage of the apps, while denying the corporations usage of the users. No amount of polishment or ease of use can cut that corner - and those parts will most likely follow naturally. Another option is to have a cultural movement to de-contaminate our life from excessive use of technology all together. If an OS that can deliver that catches enough interest, it can most likely force the corporations other than the tech giants to reposition on issues like privacy and maximising screen time. But I don't think this solves either problem. If the /e account could provide anonymity while using the most popular services, it could be useful. If their cloud services included a VPN and an account/password manager, things could be different. And if the apk-store included a way to actually limit the permissions, it might be more interesting for the general public.
One thing I like about using SailfishOS is that for example, if you don't have WhatsApp opened, no message is gonna coming through and the people could think you are offline. Sometimes I put the device in Airplane Mode and switch on Wifi/Data when I want to use internet but don't want to be disturb. Is this possible to do with LineageOS or other DeGoogled options?
Now that's interesting. I heard about another French approach to de-Googling Android while maintaining user-friendlyness. It's a company called iodé, who have taken a pretty similar approach to /e/. Maybe you could make a review about them as well and compare them? I would definitely be interested in seeing that, because I am currently not sure about what to use as my next mobile OS.
Thanks for the honest review Nick! I will look into this. I did see that their Murena One phone does not support Verizon but other than that I might try to find one of the approved phones on their list.
As a fan of LineageOS and it's ability to update older phones to a reasonable version of Andriod, I think it's nice to see additional work being done. The "pico" version of "google" stuff on top of LineageOS is just sufficient to get to the Play Store and download what you actually need to have on YOUR phone. As happens I don't need much, grin.
I've been using /e/ on a Moto 3 for over a year now and like it. One thing you didn't address is that the /e/ phones, whether refurbished or rom flashed by the user, have their bootloaders unlocked, a potential security risk. I would love to see /e/ and Pinephone work together, as that would offer a budget level alternative.
@@TheLinuxEXP Can you explain what you mean? Doesn't having an unlocked bootloader mean that if someone else gets your phone, they can just bypass your password and access your phone? Great review, by the way. It's nice to see /e/ gaining some traction!
@@thelinuxgamingexperiment1440 Which also means anyone that gets a hold of your phone can install anything like tracking software or keylogger. I'd like a way to lock it down after unlocking it and installing the OS.
That's something u can do with the TeamWin Recovery, aka TWRP. It doesn't matter which ROM u use, because it's the recovery. In fact, I'd advise against this ROM, just get TWRP and any other ROM. Same difference, only that this ROM is outdated and ugly imo
I have installed on Samsung A5 2016. Works very well. It has at least more than 700-800 MB of free space in RAM after system load, compared to factory system, which is Nougat (/e/ is Pie) and has maximum 300 MB in same situation. It gets updates frequently and install is quite simple. According to me, /e/ is recommended, if you did not need for latest technologies and eye candies and you have a compatible model.
Firefox or Opera with Adblocker. Use duckduckgo search engine. Sideload apps from apk mirror. Use Vanced instead of UA-cam. Use microG for login to Google maps and UA-cam services.. And use Microsofts outlook app instead of the stupid Gmail. I wish Android was stripped off all telemetric Google contact and Bloat apps..aswell as a virtual machine for running apps in so they dont bypass app permissions which the surely do. I still get very specifoc instagram ads even though i turned off mic and camera access on all Facebook apps
What is the URL of the webpages at 2m55s which lists compatible phones? I could not find it at the e foundation website. Found it at doc.e.foundation/devices/
I personally tried /e/ on my old Redmi Note 7 Pro last year, but honestly I did not like the replicated look and feel of iOS but I can see as to why they are trying to do that. Also from what i can see in the video the /e/ version seems to be based on Android 8.0 which is basically 3 years old at this point. Instead of /e/ I would personally install a more recent version of any custom rom based on Android 10 with microG and use that. I personally as a custom ROM user do not have any issues with aosp using ntp server default or anything else, but then that's highly subjective.
@@TheLinuxEXP From a technical point of view it does make a difference, sooner or later old versions of android would stop getting official security patches and /e/ team would need to rebase their project on newer sources on android. I'm not trying to say /e/ is bad or anything but then it would have been better if there was a more recent version of android as a base :)
half of googles updates are just another "communication" opportunity.. honestly some of yall bleeding edge guys will download the "just spying on you" update. android has barely improved since marshmallow... mostly just google stealing customisation ideas
" I did not like the replicated look and feel of iOS but I can see as to why they are trying to do that." LOL. Funny thing - Xiaomi also replicate iOS in many places and this is ok? ;)
Excellent review. I'll be trying /e/ after watching this. May breath some new life (and improved security) into my old phone, currently running LineageOS).
This led me to two very interesting discoveries, being that someones working on 3DS support on /e/, and that led to a continuation of linux on 3DS. Very fun stuff, if I learn how to I might contribute.
to put some context to that 12mb per day number: a lat and long take 16 characters or 16 bytes storing a copy of your exact location each second for a day would take just 1.3 MB (substantially less if you only stored when it changed and a timestamp) so with the remaining 11.5 MB they are certainly storing everyone you messaged, every website you visited, every app you opened, and who knows what else. a text description of every image you looked at? what do you think they trained their AI for. a transcript of every call you made? every word you spoke near your phone? what do you think they trained their AI for.
@@TheLinuxEXP, I do wish you had been compensated, as I hope you're able to keep making videos indefinitely; however, I think it adds even more weight to your overwhelmingly positive review that it wasn't sponsored.
I have a BLU phone and would love to get rid of Google. How you reclaim everything from Google Drive etc...I am happy to simply. This sounds great. Very exciting. Thank you for sharing this.
I think Huawei would still not be able to use this. Because the phone is Android based which is still owned by Google. Since the eproject is AOSP users can do what they like , but will not be allowed to make a business out of it. Hence eOs is "non profit"
I'm confused. MicroG is supposed to give an alternative Google service, right? So how does microG prevent Google's tracking? Does it remove it partially or sth like that? Pls do enlighten me on this...
youtube app replacement - newpipe they are struggling with keeping on top with changes of youtube page, but it mostly works. i am using lineageos, its also based on aosp and google packages are optional and with option to install google apps replacement allowibg to have google like api.
when you have rooted phone, afwall (available on google app store or via f-droid) is an application interface to iptables, allowing to selectively block applications from accessing internet/vpn/local network.
@@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV Hopefully that would be possible, tho a lot of companies in and out of the western market still depends on a "secured" google services.
I'm glad I got this recommendation 🙂 That said though, I find that this eOS is a major downgrade compared to the extremely feature-packed experience Samsung offers on their devices. Where's DeX mode? Where's Edge Panels? Where's the extremely versatile notes app? Where's GoodLock? I'd much rather just uninstall all the scroogle software that came on my Note 8 and stick with Samsung's extremely feature-packed, yet privacy-friendly offerings. Then control the traffic from my Note 8 with AdGuard Premium. Which is what I've done thus far. Make it OneUI based then we're talking.
@@TheLinuxEXP Duplicate features? Lol, sounding like one of them uninformed reviewers. Samsung's software offerings are miles more feature-rich compared to scroogle's. So much so, literally EVERYTHING "new" to pitifully-limited stock Android 11 has been on my Note 8 right out of the box with Android 7. Heck, stock Android's desktop mode is still merely been in beta all this while, whereas Samsung DeX is already replacing chunky windows Laptops/Desktops in police vehicles and offices. How do you consider that "duplicate features"? Those duplicate apps you get out of the box are merely there for the user's convenience in deciding whether they want scroogle's data-harvesting services or Samsung's feature-rich and privacy-friendly services. The user can simply uninstall/disable the ones they don't want, which is what I did to all the scroogle apps on my Note 8.
I'm not uninformed. I used Samsung phones for 6 years now. These features are, IMO, clutter. The Android experience in general is super messy. The settings are mostly illegible, Samsung adds their own apps in too of Google's and also i stalls some Microsoft apps by default. There are tons of hidden features in the settings that are just useless to me. Swipe for a screenshot? Wake up the phone when you lift it? That sidebar thing, which you can bring up by swiping the power button ? It's just totally unnecessary to my experience with a phone. If other people use them, then good for them, but I would much prefer a simpler skin, like the one /e/ offers.
@@TheLinuxEXP You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but having experienced the Note 8 as my first ever Samsung Smartphone (after over half a decade of using just jailbroken iPhones then switching to Android on a OnePlus One in 2014), I simply can NEVER settle for anything less versatile than this. That palm swipe to capture has come in handy for capturing screenshots of various apps that respond to the press of my Note 8's buttons. I'd much rather have the choice when I need it than be stuck hunting around for some 3rd party solution when I need it. Raise to wake, although I personally didn't enable it, I can certainly see its use for the situation where your phone's power button got damaged. Instead of always having to use some pin to reach the button on the motherboard each time you want to wake up the device, you simply pick it up. Again, I'd much rather have the choice than be scrambling for some 3rd party solution when required. Finally, the Edge Panels, that's a MAJOR feature I use EVERYDAY on my Note 8. It provides a whole bunch of time saving functions, so much so, I can NEVER settle for a device without it. Below are just a handful of uses: - It provides quick access to my favorite apps and app pairs from ANY screen, including the lockscreen - It allows quick opening of apps like the calculator in floating window mode (I simply drag it from the Apps edge panel to the center of my screen) so I can calculate whatever is on my screen at the moment without wasting time switching between apps. - It enables quick tracking of my stocks on the stock market, via the Yahoo Finance Edge panel. - Enables quick tracking of breaking news headlines. - Enables quick access to my special bookmarks, including my Kodi stream pairing websites, getting to which needs to be fast before it times out in Kodi. - Enables quick access to a compass/leveler/ruler/flashlight/tally counter - Enables quick access to my favorite contacts - Enables quick access to weather information - Enables quick access to data usage information All of that, accessible from ANY screen (including lockscreen) with merely a swipe (configurable on a per panel basis). Plus, it is further extendable with 3rd party apps from the app store. I certainly ain't settling for any device without it. Stock Android would likely implement it in another decade like all their other "new" features...
I'm using both for quite a long time now. Both are ad free and allow background playback. New Pipe downloads audio and video. It's sometimes a bit buggy, but definitely worth the patience. It also includes ad free soundcloud which is also very cool. You even can search on the sound cloud app and then play it with New Pipe. Get F-Droid to keep it updated. UA-cam Vanced is on XDA Developers, watch out there are some fakes.
UA-cam Vanced has features that are only available for UA-cam Premium, pretty nice and no need to pay, also it removes entirely the ads (that's why a lot of UA-camrs avoid talking and recommending using it) = Less revenue for them.
In any case as much as you want to run away from google and ios, and them harvesting data. The e account you sign to they will also harvest data. As long as you are going to sign in somewhere your data will be collected, and used somehow. There is no running away from data harvesting, its just that who do u want to give your data to
I like LineageOS 17.1. Been using 16 for about 6 months now without issues. The only problem was when the OS switched from 16 to 17 it required flashing the new OS rather than doing an auto update. In fact @ 07:59 you show in About Phone its using LineageOS llama.
how much does it cost i tries the website and the homepage loaded but the page to buy a phone didnt load and the page to install the os only loaded minimal stuff for some reason
I've been watching Eelo and /e/ since day one and know it will be my next phone. Since I've never flashed a phone before, I'm waiting on their installer to flash my old S7 but will soon get something from them directly. I hope it works well in the US, that's the only thing I have to make sure.
I'm a very happy that the UA-cam algorithm recommend me a video on how to remove google services 😁
Well UA-cam is all over anyways
How ironic.
Agree, I'll put this on my "Bizzare Recommendation" playlist
same
Its bizness...😂😂😂
I remember when i installed a custom rom on my Motorola moto g first generation, i forgot to install google apps and battery lasted for 2 days, and that day i realized that google do more on the background
UA-cam vanced > newpipe
@@DRSDavidSoft Try Firefox or Chromium on your phone insted
@@DRSDavidSoft use microg
Just like huawei phones these days
@@paulofreireslaw I use YT Vanced, btw (you cant reply to comments or see them on newpipe)
An important distinction: /e/ didn't start from AOSP, aka the "scratch" of Android. They started from forking LineageOS, and benefited from the de-googling and optimizations already done by Lineage contributors. This is why they could focus on beautifying the UI, adding branding, making their app store, and removing extra Google stuff Lineage didn't remove in order to replace it with their own implementations. I still think /e/ adds a fair amount of value to its Lineage base, though. It's precisely because they already had a good base that they could build good stuff on top it. The beauty of open source!
Thanks for the precision !
At the end of the day it doesn't matter. If you do not provide access to one of the 2 big AppStores, you need a BIIIIIG Appstore with all important Apps yourself.
If you don't have it, you fail. I mean if Blackberry and Microsoft both fail, because of this exact issue, the e project is going to fail for sure.
E started with markiplier, stop lying
@@TheNerd apkpure, apkcombo, apkmirror: Are we a joke to you?
Which version of Android and what date was it released? lol, as mobile history is being written.
Plenty of OS'es to choose from, but it depends on your device and SoC.
Open Hardware is still a little lagging.
I would like to see more linux phones, need a third OS in mobile world...
Android IS Linux
NymezWoW android only uses the linux kernels, everything else is built specifically for it. I meant GNU/linux, open source and free software.
Abu b.kurian Android is free and open source.
NymezWoW its free and open source but not a free-software, i meant like GNU...
@@abubkurian1625 Abu is right, just because it has a linux kernel it doesn't mean that android adhers to linux distros general philosophy. Google's android has added many closed source proprietary parts to the android ecosystem. So yes, android is open source but google is strangelholding its ecosystem
Allow *Calculator* to make and manage phone calls?
Ikr, today I literally found a remote control app that needed access to my phone’s IMEI number. Wasn’t born yesterday, deleted that shit right away lmao.
@@NijiDash Mi remote even has privacy policy 🤣🤣🤣
@@IntrovertedTechie Yup that's the app I meant, well what did we expect from China right? 🤣
@@NijiDash yeah
@@NijiDash I've never used a xiaomi before but if you do abit of reading online they seem to be more trustworthy than companies like huawei and whatever the parent company is of oppo vivo and oneplus
January 2021 gonna make this video very popular. Nobody like google, Apple, amazon, Microsoft, etc...
Let’s hope so :D
That’s what brought me here. About to trash my iPhone. Done with apple google amazon microsoft and all the rest. And waiting on a dip to buy into Bitcoin. Huge learning curve tho.
@@dopechannoodles9791 I’m in the same boat. I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Nice phone, but i can’t support Apple anymore. I need to find another phone similar, but with tons more privacy. Any idea what might be a good alternative?
86 millions people had their VOTES crapped on!! So yea !!!!
@@bill6872 maybe Oneplus...but they use Google.. the sad thing is we made these companies what they are and now they're abusing their power on us
Very impressive speaking skills! We need these phones in the USA! HUGE demand for anything Google free now!
We have them! Get one now
Dont forget about Apple Charles
@@estebanjones2112 Apple is now censoring and blocking apps now in the USA
@@njseashorechas2698 I know. That is what I was trying to add to your comment. We need to start changinf from web searches to mails and phones.
@@estebanjones2112 Glad I Subscribed to your channel. Keep us updated!
This is the best lighting setup I’ve ever seen on UA-cam ever.
/e/ foundation has a history of bad open source behavior. The OS is a fork of a _really_ old build of LineageOS (not that forking is an issue, it's just out-of-date), they shamelessly remove credits from Lineage code, and everything on /e/ can probably be achieved on LineageOS in under 10 minutes manually
Oh boy, I was about to comment that why not just go LineageOS, but if this is a ripoff of that. Well forget it.
I don't know this YTber, but it looks like he has no clue about android.
I don't like linage os as well but a fan of graphene os
Thanks for the useful information! I was about to post the question about if the "e account" was something forced or optional; the moment i listened about it on the video, i immediately thought of it as suspicious.
@@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV Yes such truth can easily be inferred from the content of his channel.
The highest praise for a product that was given temporarily for review is "I'm considering buying it instead of sending it back"
So nobody is going to talk about how fast the operating system is without any google services installed?
And more battery saved.
it's faster. obviously.BUT Are you forgetting About Push Messages? only offered by google. Samsung too(horrible).
@@janithcooray5546 ... I have a samsung and I have no idea what push messages are, lmao
@@openlink9958 android phones and iOS phones use push services to receive notifications from web. Like what’s app messaging etc. it plays a huge roll in battery life. But you won’t receive messages
@@janithcooray5546 That's what MicroG is for :)
You: this is is Android without Google spying on you
Also you: install YT Studio
Well, I've got to try it 😅
At least, less data is sent since there is no Google Play Services and it relies on microG :)
@@MarkHobbes so better battery 😂😂😂
Just put a firewall on your phone, allow what you want blovk everything else. Ive used it for yearrrs more recently google force the phone to try and restart around midnight and dump the firewall. So i turn data off etc.
Glad I've kept some of my older phones, they will be perfect to set this up with.
i did save my old phones, now the time dumb google
If 3g goes off line then what??
@@Johnny-dp5mu then you just got yourself a pocket PC use your imagination .
This is a great start to shut these monopolies down. But my only skepticism is...it still has Android which the roots are from Google.
Yeah, that’s why I just released a video about pure Linux on a phone :)
I use LineageOS and MicroG. After a short learning curve I can't really say I'm missing a lot.
Huawei: We have Android with no Google preinstalled on our phones
I'd love to see some benchmarks between this phone and it's google counter-part, i always wondered just how much processing power and battery these google services take up and if disabling them would make a noticeable difference or not.
I subscribed.
Also thanks for giving credit to the musical artist/song.
If I like the the music, I like to know who it is.
I'm sure they want to be known as well.
Great video. A full Linux OS phone will happen when primary development switches from x86 to ARM. Until then, /e/ is the best thing going for people who are tired of corporations selling your data. The only issue now is getting privacy-respecting hardware.
Me waiting for Linux to focus on POWER and RISC-V
Thanks. This is what I needed to kick the effort off the start line. Purchased (bit damaged) old S9 to test, if I like it, I'll grab the S9+ from /e/. Thanks a lot!
Nice video!
I never understood Google Services... It slows down all the system just to open apps you could use directly from the browser... It's stupid.
Tracking, hacking, to build a more complete profile of you, including biometrics and location. Then share it with Chinese businesses, etc.
that's what responsibility brings ..
Wow...that seemed like a really good, objective review. Thanks Stranger!
Thanks for watching :)
This is a great video. We'll done. Thanks for sharing. Apple and Google have their teeth in everyone, and our data should be our data. Part of me feels a project such as this, could be bought up by a major phone manufacturer highlighting the advantages of being decoupled from Google. We need a major phone manufacturer to do this in my opinion. LG, Sony, even Samsung could do this and I think it would really take off.
I'm so excited I found this. I fully support their efforts!
Really interesting to see that these projects are coming out. And I'm really planning on switching to them in the future. Or use my older devices and just put that OS on it instead of buying something new. Enough options that respect the user and their privacy to choose from if you ask me.
I just stumbled over this blog. This is great news. I'm not tech savvy though, so I'd have to wait for the installer app.
I'm over these tech giants. Open source is the way to go. Keep on working on the installer. You will get my business.
Yeah as soon as they can make this painless, they'll grab more market share !
Most of the apps still use Google/Firebase analytics. So by installing any of the third-party closed-source apps - Google is still there.
How many sites can be accessed without an app?
That’s true but the trick is they can’t connect it too your identity!
We need to support such alternative freedom for the masses platforms.
How is their privacy policy like? I might have to check that out. Better than google using your data for everything adrelated I guess.
This is pretty cool. The ultimate would be if you can run android in a virtual machine. Turn on VM when you need to use a google app, or another low privacy app, then turn it back off when you’re done. Even if the controls for the host OS take up a bit of room on the screen somewhere, most of the modern phones have enough screen real estate for that anyway. Plus, if you ever upgrade the phone, running the VM on the new phone would be as easy as copying the file to the new phone.
The permissions on Android always annoyed me.
I wish there was an option to install the package and not give it all the permissions it want. Like activate and deactivate them as I need to use this or that.
Like allow camera in the web browser. If don't allow the site will say something like. Sorry this feature is not working. Bla bla.
I agree 100%
I think it will do if you use some of AOSP flavor like LineageOS
Some sites today straight up won't work i you just deny notifications from them, it's really shady stuff
@@eduard647 dont use those shit sites
OnePlus phones are quite nice on this. It'll ask if you want to give permission x for app y. It also more specifically gives that third and to me most interesting option "deny if program is running in background".
Now that I have read thru the review, I will watch it. Very well written, informative & anytime I see "open source" my antennas start vibrating. Like Mozilla with the T-Rex Hammer & Sickle "stand alone" installer.
Here in January 2021, and how right they were for creating this! We are getting more Orwellian every day...
The original idea is right, but the work is badly done & i'd recommand using CalyxOS or even LineageOS instead of this OS that is a big security hole filled with bugs
It’s far from badly done. I’ve been using it for months and it’s stable, and polished.
Other roms aren’t close in terms of what they remove from Google.
@@TheLinuxEXP what they remove? default dns? + what , connectivity check? ...
it's BS
It’s not. They have a page listing everything they removed.
It also looks like the /E/ OS weather app is showing Brest as mostly cloudy, which by nature is an improvement versus the Android/IOS phones always listing rainy or showers... 🤔 Jokes aside the OS looks very interesting and definitely matching an increasing demand. Great videos as always! Keep up with the great work.
Hahaha yeah, it never rains in Brest, it's just slightly grey and moist outside 😅
Thanks for watching :)
This video: Android without Google
Huawei: First time?
AceOculus
He means without Google OR China.
@@matthew8153 i meant in an literal way
I have a Huawei, it runs Google. What Huawei product doesn't have Google?
@@jdtsb8856 clearly you live in an alternate universe
@@wanderer8200@ Like I said, I own a Huawei. I asked a legit question. If you don't know the answer, don't waste your time replying with nothing.
I'm running Lineage OS and fdroid instead of google play.
This is better. /e/ are not magicians, nanodroid would accomplish something similar if you ran it in lineage, /e/ apps are proven insecure and send personal data over plaintext. BEWARE
Neither is /e/
@@SpaceTimeBeing_ It's pretty highly degoogled imo. I noticed quite many misbehaves because of those missing features from g's services.Though I can't say/claim it's 100%
@@jothain ewwlo.void.partidopirata.com.ar/
@@Joshlul what is the best alternative to the e foundation in 2020?
Great, i have transformed my S8 to this operating system, and it looks indeed a little bit basic, but everything works fine and am very happy with it!..thanks!
9:43 Google Firebase Analytics, Google Admob
It's almost impossible to find bigger apps without anything Google related IMO. Obviously, since they are for Android.
Beyond Systems: we depend on our abilities to react timely according to the present moments.
Phones are the current frontier on pushing against Google and Facebook; but I think the key is efficient containers and limiting the amount of data matched from different sources. I can't see neither the public choosing to move past Facebook's apps and Google's services, nor those companies willingly giving up permissions or access to personal data.
So we need one android that can effectively allow usage of the apps, while denying the corporations usage of the users. No amount of polishment or ease of use can cut that corner - and those parts will most likely follow naturally.
Another option is to have a cultural movement to de-contaminate our life from excessive use of technology all together. If an OS that can deliver that catches enough interest, it can most likely force the corporations other than the tech giants to reposition on issues like privacy and maximising screen time.
But I don't think this solves either problem. If the /e account could provide anonymity while using the most popular services, it could be useful. If their cloud services included a VPN and an account/password manager, things could be different. And if the apk-store included a way to actually limit the permissions, it might be more interesting for the general public.
One thing I like about using SailfishOS is that for example, if you
don't have WhatsApp opened, no message is gonna coming through and the
people could think you are offline. Sometimes I put the device in
Airplane Mode and switch on Wifi/Data when I want to use internet but
don't want to be disturb. Is this possible to do with LineageOS or other
DeGoogled options?
Cool video, never heard of this project before. Thanks for the review 👍👍
You're welcome :)
1:55 where do those figures come from?
Now that's interesting. I heard about another French approach to de-Googling Android while maintaining user-friendlyness. It's a company called iodé, who have taken a pretty similar approach to /e/. Maybe you could make a review about them as well and compare them? I would definitely be interested in seeing that, because I am currently not sure about what to use as my next mobile OS.
I’ll look into it!
Thanks for the honest review Nick! I will look into this. I did see that their Murena One phone does not support Verizon but other than that I might try to find one of the approved phones on their list.
Hey Nick thx for this video. I was looking for a New OS for my smartphone and this one seems to be perfect.
You're welcome ;)
As a fan of LineageOS and it's ability to update older phones to a reasonable version of Andriod, I think it's nice to see additional work being done. The "pico" version of "google" stuff on top of LineageOS is just sufficient to get to the Play Store and download what you actually need to have on YOUR phone. As happens I don't need much, grin.
"Android without Google"
You mean Huawei Phones today?
Is that a joke? Trading Google for Huawei is like being happy having the choice of which tool your torturer will use on you
@@invntiv Can't take some kind of a Satire, Aren't you?
Ah yes oak OS. Heard it is faster than android
@@invntiv the CIA still haven't provide any evidence that Huawei collects user data tho.
@@muyin Every Chinese based company provides data to the Chinese govt.
I've been using /e/ on a Moto 3 for over a year now and like it. One thing you didn't address is that the /e/ phones, whether refurbished or rom flashed by the user, have their bootloaders unlocked, a potential security risk. I would love to see /e/ and Pinephone work together, as that would offer a budget level alternative.
Well the unlocked bootloader is an added bonus, a good thing!
@@TheLinuxEXP Can you explain what you mean? Doesn't having an unlocked bootloader mean that if someone else gets your phone, they can just bypass your password and access your phone? Great review, by the way. It's nice to see /e/ gaining some traction!
Well, yeah, but it also means you can install anything you'd like on your own phone :)
@@thelinuxgamingexperiment1440 Which also means anyone that gets a hold of your phone can install anything like tracking software or keylogger. I'd like a way to lock it down after unlocking it and installing the OS.
Great content. Question: How to move from Gmail?
I have already done a video on that, in the same playlist ;)
@Linux CodeX protonmail and tutanota should be the best alternatives
Pay a serious email provider and use a different app. I really recommend fair email, It is a great piece of work.
Mailo is a simple alternative :)
If you have have a server, you can make your own relay on it.
I seriously consider buying one. Thanks for the recommendation!
I have only one question:
Can I finally make an actual backup of the whole phone?
That's something u can do with the TeamWin Recovery, aka TWRP. It doesn't matter which ROM u use, because it's the recovery. In fact, I'd advise against this ROM, just get TWRP and any other ROM. Same difference, only that this ROM is outdated and ugly imo
I have installed on Samsung A5 2016. Works very well. It has at least more than 700-800 MB of free space in RAM after system load, compared to factory system, which is Nougat (/e/ is Pie) and has maximum 300 MB in same situation. It gets updates frequently and install is quite simple. According to me, /e/ is recommended, if you did not need for latest technologies and eye candies and you have a compatible model.
Firefox or Opera with Adblocker.
Use duckduckgo search engine.
Sideload apps from apk mirror.
Use Vanced instead of UA-cam.
Use microG for login to Google maps and UA-cam services..
And use Microsofts outlook app instead of the stupid Gmail.
I wish Android was stripped off all telemetric Google contact and Bloat apps..aswell as a virtual machine for running apps in so they dont bypass app permissions which the surely do. I still get very specifoc instagram ads even though i turned off mic and camera access on all Facebook apps
What is the URL of the webpages at 2m55s which lists compatible phones?
I could not find it at the e foundation website.
Found it at doc.e.foundation/devices/
I personally tried /e/ on my old Redmi Note 7 Pro last year, but honestly I did not like the replicated look and feel of iOS but I can see as to why they are trying to do that. Also from what i can see in the video the /e/ version seems to be based on Android 8.0 which is basically 3 years old at this point. Instead of /e/ I would personally install a more recent version of any custom rom based on Android 10 with microG and use that. I personally as a custom ROM user do not have any issues with aosp using ntp server default or anything else, but then that's highly subjective.
Android 8 it seems, yes, but honestly there's not much difference anymore
@@TheLinuxEXP From a technical point of view it does make a difference, sooner or later old versions of android would stop getting official security patches and /e/ team would need to rebase their project on newer sources on android. I'm not trying to say /e/ is bad or anything but then it would have been better if there was a more recent version of android as a base :)
Oh they'll probably do it when it's necessary :)
half of googles updates are just another "communication" opportunity..
honestly some of yall bleeding edge guys will download the "just spying on you" update.
android has barely improved since marshmallow... mostly just google stealing customisation ideas
" I did not like the replicated look and feel of iOS but I can see as to why they are trying to do that."
LOL. Funny thing - Xiaomi also replicate iOS in many places and this is ok? ;)
Hosting your eservices will get me buying this phone.
Graphene OS is also completely degoogled and probably the most secure version of android ever
That´ right, but it´s only available for Pixel Phones that are Google´s Spyware.
@@ivanguerra1260 It's safe to say most phones are spyware. It's going to take time before open hardware is developed.
Yes, but installing it is a hassle.
I'd go with lineage, since pixel pretty much has a blackbox proprietary security chip, and security via obscurity is a bitch.
I love it. e foundation can go suck on Toes
Excellent review. I'll be trying /e/ after watching this. May breath some new life (and improved security) into my old phone, currently running LineageOS).
As always great video!
Thank you :)
This led me to two very interesting discoveries, being that someones working on 3DS support on /e/, and that led to a continuation of linux on 3DS. Very fun stuff, if I learn how to I might contribute.
Gotta get one of these to save myself from the covid genocide contact tracing Psychopathy. Thanks for making this video. Much appreciated.
to put some context to that 12mb per day number:
a lat and long take 16 characters or 16 bytes
storing a copy of your exact location each second for a day would take just 1.3 MB (substantially less if you only stored when it changed and a timestamp)
so with the remaining 11.5 MB they are certainly storing everyone you messaged, every website you visited, every app you opened, and who knows what else.
a text description of every image you looked at? what do you think they trained their AI for.
a transcript of every call you made? every word you spoke near your phone? what do you think they trained their AI for.
This is an awesome review. I bet the /e/ Foundation is blown away by this reception. Excellent choice on their part to not actually sponsor it.
Had I known I would have liked it so much, I would have asked for money 😅
@@TheLinuxEXP, I do wish you had been compensated, as I hope you're able to keep making videos indefinitely; however, I think it adds even more weight to your overwhelmingly positive review that it wasn't sponsored.
For now, I have no plans to stop :) I can't make a living on what UA-cam pays me, but it could happen if the channel keeps growing :)
Nice video very clear. I have all mine working but still can’t get the web gui shows the same face on a webpage same as the e ink display
Degoogled sounds tight ✊😉
How can we flash an existing old spare android mobile please?
The e.foundation has all the steps on their website :)
@@TheLinuxEXP thanks for that! I'll follow it up!
I love the word “DEGOOGLED”
I have a BLU phone and would love to get rid of Google. How you reclaim everything from Google Drive etc...I am happy to simply. This sounds great. Very exciting. Thank you for sharing this.
Why doesn't Huawei just team up with /e/ Project and use eOS in their latest phones
I think Huawei would still not be able to use this. Because the phone is Android based which is still owned by Google. Since the eproject is AOSP users can do what they like , but will not be allowed to make a business out of it. Hence eOs is "non profit"
@@josephanand16 Yea, makes sense
I like the OS and the fact that you still have access to the regular apps like Spotify
Fortunately this video haven't seen by any UA-cam employee.
I'm confused. MicroG is supposed to give an alternative Google service, right? So how does microG prevent Google's tracking? Does it remove it partially or sth like that? Pls do enlighten me on this...
Appreciated the Yuka mention, such a slept on app.
I'm seriously thinking to try this OS, I'm actually using a Redmi Note 8
How do you get phone service and data on them, though?
Insert any SIM card :)
@@TheLinuxEXP it's been my experience that a company hasn't accepted a phone that I had. This happened after I bought it.
In France, and most of Europe, your SIM card works on every non simlocked phone, but maybe it’s different elsewhere!
Huawei wants to know your location
Is deGoogle but not deChina.
Huawei is more fair than Google! theybare saying we are selling cellphones. Google sell you service =)
Totally not a huawei employee
youtube app replacement - newpipe
they are struggling with keeping on top with changes of youtube page, but it mostly works.
i am using lineageos, its also based on aosp and google packages are optional and with option to install google apps replacement allowibg to have google like api.
when you have rooted phone, afwall (available on google app store or via f-droid) is an application interface to iptables, allowing to selectively block applications from accessing internet/vpn/local network.
@@nescius2 uP
Sadly many apps needs google services to work, tho it's true we need another system.
That's what MicroG is for. Look it up.
@@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV Hopefully that would be possible, tho a lot of companies in and out of the western market still depends on a "secured" google services.
There is also harmony os coming
Your outro music is really funky, I love it.
I'm glad I got this recommendation 🙂 That said though, I find that this eOS is a major downgrade compared to the extremely feature-packed experience Samsung offers on their devices. Where's DeX mode? Where's Edge Panels? Where's the extremely versatile notes app? Where's GoodLock?
I'd much rather just uninstall all the scroogle software that came on my Note 8 and stick with Samsung's extremely feature-packed, yet privacy-friendly offerings. Then control the traffic from my Note 8 with AdGuard Premium. Which is what I've done thus far.
Make it OneUI based then we're talking.
That's features I had never used on my Samsung phone, they just clutter Android IMO with all that stuff that creates duplicate features :)
@@TheLinuxEXP Duplicate features? Lol, sounding like one of them uninformed reviewers. Samsung's software offerings are miles more feature-rich compared to scroogle's. So much so, literally EVERYTHING "new" to pitifully-limited stock Android 11 has been on my Note 8 right out of the box with Android 7.
Heck, stock Android's desktop mode is still merely been in beta all this while, whereas Samsung DeX is already replacing chunky windows Laptops/Desktops in police vehicles and offices. How do you consider that "duplicate features"?
Those duplicate apps you get out of the box are merely there for the user's convenience in deciding whether they want scroogle's data-harvesting services or Samsung's feature-rich and privacy-friendly services. The user can simply uninstall/disable the ones they don't want, which is what I did to all the scroogle apps on my Note 8.
I'm not uninformed. I used Samsung phones for 6 years now.
These features are, IMO, clutter. The Android experience in general is super messy.
The settings are mostly illegible, Samsung adds their own apps in too of Google's and also i stalls some Microsoft apps by default.
There are tons of hidden features in the settings that are just useless to me. Swipe for a screenshot? Wake up the phone when you lift it? That sidebar thing, which you can bring up by swiping the power button ?
It's just totally unnecessary to my experience with a phone. If other people use them, then good for them, but I would much prefer a simpler skin, like the one /e/ offers.
@@TheLinuxEXP You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but having experienced the Note 8 as my first ever Samsung Smartphone (after over half a decade of using just jailbroken iPhones then switching to Android on a OnePlus One in 2014), I simply can NEVER settle for anything less versatile than this.
That palm swipe to capture has come in handy for capturing screenshots of various apps that respond to the press of my Note 8's buttons. I'd much rather have the choice when I need it than be stuck hunting around for some 3rd party solution when I need it.
Raise to wake, although I personally didn't enable it, I can certainly see its use for the situation where your phone's power button got damaged. Instead of always having to use some pin to reach the button on the motherboard each time you want to wake up the device, you simply pick it up. Again, I'd much rather have the choice than be scrambling for some 3rd party solution when required.
Finally, the Edge Panels, that's a MAJOR feature I use EVERYDAY on my Note 8. It provides a whole bunch of time saving functions, so much so, I can NEVER settle for a device without it. Below are just a handful of uses:
- It provides quick access to my favorite apps and app pairs from ANY screen, including the lockscreen
- It allows quick opening of apps like the calculator in floating window mode (I simply drag it from the Apps edge panel to the center of my screen) so I can calculate whatever is on my screen at the moment without wasting time switching between apps.
- It enables quick tracking of my stocks on the stock market, via the Yahoo Finance Edge panel.
- Enables quick tracking of breaking news headlines.
- Enables quick access to my special bookmarks, including my Kodi stream pairing websites, getting to which needs to be fast before it times out in Kodi.
- Enables quick access to a compass/leveler/ruler/flashlight/tally counter
- Enables quick access to my favorite contacts
- Enables quick access to weather information
- Enables quick access to data usage information
All of that, accessible from ANY screen (including lockscreen) with merely a swipe (configurable on a per panel basis). Plus, it is further extendable with 3rd party apps from the app store. I certainly ain't settling for any device without it. Stock Android would likely implement it in another decade like all their other "new" features...
thanks a lot for sharing! very happy to discover this
No problem :) Glad to be of service !
I don't trust them a single bit tbh.
Why not? I'm getting a weird vibe too but can't put my finger on it.
@@erwindee7384 is it because the letter e is just a flipped letter G from Google?
@@Kevin-yh8ol No. I think I was feeling like they were ignoring the elephant in the room that is LineageOS. Can't remember now.
This is like Custom rom but without Opengapps installed ?
The real question is how will they feed their employees?
You can buy refurbished phone with /e/ installed on it. You can also buy storage upgrade. Also donations.
cant get a fairphone without android on their shop, only one option on UK shop no /e/
Lol newpipe (open source) or YT vanced (apk mod) with MicroG (open source reimplemention of the brat) can be good enough
I'm using both for quite a long time now. Both are ad free and allow background playback. New Pipe downloads audio and video. It's sometimes a bit buggy, but definitely worth the patience. It also includes ad free soundcloud which is also very cool. You even can search on the sound cloud app and then play it with New Pipe. Get F-Droid to keep it updated. UA-cam Vanced is on XDA Developers, watch out there are some fakes.
UA-cam Vanced has features that are only available for UA-cam Premium, pretty nice and no need to pay, also it removes entirely the ads (that's why a lot of UA-camrs avoid talking and recommending using it) = Less revenue for them.
In any case as much as you want to run away from google and ios, and them harvesting data. The e account you sign to they will also harvest data. As long as you are going to sign in somewhere your data will be collected, and used somehow.
There is no running away from data harvesting, its just that who do u want to give your data to
Except you'll be able to host these services yourself in the future if you want :)
What a cheap company making you send it back after reviewing it for free smh
This guy is straight up. Quality channel.
Thanks man :)
I like LineageOS 17.1. Been using 16 for about 6 months now without issues. The only problem was when the OS switched from 16 to 17 it required flashing the new OS rather than doing an auto update. In fact @ 07:59 you show in About Phone its using LineageOS llama.
@The Linux Experiment can you make video about, how can we compile de-google for our device which is not listed in de-google website.
how much does it cost i tries the website and the homepage loaded but the page to buy a phone didnt load and the page to install the os only loaded minimal stuff for some reason
android is a registered trademark. It actually falls under AOSP, not android. If you're not google, you can't name any os Android
Is the second telephoto lens working on aosp?
makes me wonder how feasible a collaboration between /e/ and ubports foundations is
They both make different OS why a collaboration?
@@redrock9319 like the cloud services and perhaps drivers and what not both are linux oses after all
I am so damn excited by this, oh man. It's literally going to be that kid on Christmas moment when I get one of these.
How is this any different from AOSP or Lineage builds without gapps?
I've been watching Eelo and /e/ since day one and know it will be my next phone. Since I've never flashed a phone before, I'm waiting on their installer to flash my old S7 but will soon get something from them directly. I hope it works well in the US, that's the only thing I have to make sure.