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?
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?
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.
I only use mine for Youtube too. Make sure to use SmartTube tho https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
Damn you said chrome cast and made me think I can get an actual dashboard on mine
I thought the new one had a built in dashboard
Aren’t those called google TVs?
I always thought the chromecast always had a dashboard until now. The new one is essentialy just android
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
1uping this one !
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.
Not without unlocking the bootloader, which is locked up tight on all CCwGTV models especially since the OTA update to Android 12
