Moving from iOS to GrapheneOS, need guidance
What are the best piracy tips/tricks. I host most of my own media, but I want to be able to read paywalled news articles, watch youtube w/o ads am generally into privacy, etc.
What are your best practices?
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https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager for YouTube (and other App mods), you need to patch the app yourself. (If you are downloading a patched apk you are getting scammed. You have to patch it yourself) https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon for manga / manhwa I use internet archives for paywalls but their might be a better solution. F-droid has a a lot of neat open source app, I guess you know of it since you are picking graphene, but just in case. Firefox supports addons, it's been a great browser (though its UI is a bit rough sometimes) and could be your solution for YouTube with uBlock and the background play addons. I personally don't like graphene launcher, I personally use NovaLauncher (the paid version), their is quite a lot of FOSS ones too.
edit: sorry for the formatting, my phone f it up
Revanced is questionable. Use Tubular instead.
Why do you think so?
You're not modifying a stock YouTube client, it doesn't give you recommendations, it doesn't have Shorts and you don't technically violate the YouTube ToS.
Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it's baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.
I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.
Question about browsers: Do you have a preference of Firefox, Fennec or Iceraven?
Thanks for the tip about Web Archives. I'll put that on for sure. Was considering sideloading Bypass Paywalls Clean and they mentioned Iceraven, which I had never heard of.
Edit: BPC link goes to a *.ru TLD. Link is also on the BPC wikipedia page. They previously got booted from gitlab and github.
I recommend Mull. It is security/privacy hardened Firefox and built by using Fennec as a base. Always use Fennec over Firefox because it removes telemetry, proprietary code, and strongly protects against browser fingerprinting. Comes with support for most (if not all) desktop Firefox extensions. I highly recommend using uBlock Origin, ask anyone and they'll tell you it is the best content blocker available.
Another good browser is Cromite. It is security hardened Chromium with built-in ad/content blocking, decent fingerprinting protection, and strong site isolation. It doesn't have support for extensions because upstream Chromium on Android doesn't either and it is hugely complex to port.
Modded APKs always have some level of risk. I would personally never use *vanced or anything, I'd stick to Newpipe.
The patch set is open source, so is the application that does the patches. I don't feel like it's worse than downloading most apps. Though you still rely on Google services.