On my chromecast i have Google and Google Assistant disabled. I also have Projectivy launcher. I want to know how to degoogle it further, i am too scared to disable google play services because i don’t have aurora store here. I also replaced Gboard with a open source alternative. Any ideas?

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m dead keen to know. Just bought one, but want to use it without giving google everything about me.

    Or, is there a privacy respecting alternative?

  • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You could use a pihole to further block tracking, but you might have mixed results. I’m sure someone has a suggestion relevant to pihole and Chromecast out there.

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    1 year ago

    Anything you can play with VLC is able to cast. If you use a client like NewPipe for YouTube, you can set it up to play videos externally with VLC

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    1 year ago

    I’m interested to know this too. Although mine are only used to stream YouTube, so Google isn’t getting anything new from the Chromecast.

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    1 year ago

    Not without unlocking the bootloader, which is locked up tight on all CCwGTV models especially since the OTA update to Android 12