I use a rooted Xiaomi Mi Box 2S rooted and degoogled filtered by pi-hole and I only use stremio or jellyfin and smartube for youtube.

True

For everyone still using Simple Tools apps, switch to Fossify it’s a fork that has all that crap removed

Motorola phones are very easy to mod(root,custom rom) and even if you brick the phone in most cases you can just use the lenovo recovery tool. I personally use crdroid but lineage is fine too. I recommend you use microg with magisk to hide that the device is root/has custom rom. You can also just use shelter for the banking apps.

Yeah but 69 is better

Do I need to put /s after every obvious joke…

Dude, you have only 56 posts…

Start whining when you have over 500.

Now get back to work, those posts aren’t gonna make themselves

If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…

I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…

Archually

Shag & Scoob

Most if not all require you to pay since free ones would already be claimed. There’s esimplus but I don’t know if they are trust worthy. Try searching for prepaid phone number online and see if you find something.

Prepaid is the way. It shouldn’t be but it is.

It’s funny because I wasn’t even using a 3rd party app so this didn’t really affect me but it was better to leave reddit then instead of waiting for something that will affect me. That and I love open source.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

I just want to play ZE. Valve please fix.

I don’t dream.