Thanks a lot for sharing your setup. I'm not ready to move to Graphene. I guess I too much like the convenience of Google services. But, inspired by your note, I guess I could, on my stock Android phone, simply add a new profile, without Google account, use Aurora to install Amethyst and a Bitcoin wallet, and, on this way, hide this identity and hide, at least from people who may look at my phone, the fact that I'm interested in Bitcoin. Remove anything Bitcoin or Nostr related from the admin profile. Do you think it makes sense and is a step in the right direction? When thinking about my risk profile or op sec or privacy needs, I don't think I need a very strong setup, and I really like Google maps and fingerprint unlock and so on, but I don't want people around to know I'm interested in Bitcoin. Thoughts?

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Any step you take towards greater #privacy is a step in the right direction. However, adding privacy measures on top of stock #android are largely ineffective. Stock Android is pure spyware, and all Google services and apps are spying tools. It's also not a great idea to download #nostr or #bitcoin apps from the Aurora Store. If the apps are #opensource code, use 'Obtanium' instead, this allows you to download .APKs directly from their GitHub source. You can still get services like Google Maps and fingerprint unlock working fine, I'm not sure why you'd think they wouldn't work. Uh, #grapheneOS is just a hardened version of Android that's stripped out all the Google shit, but you can still install them back.