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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn you said chrome cast and made me think I can get an actual dashboard on mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I thought the new one had a built in dashboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1uping this one !