Digital payments require a digital payments app which require google play services. I cannot function without it. My transactions are 95% digital. I do not do deal in cash. Its much simpler and easier to scan and pay rather than count change and deal with it.
You can block images above a certain size in ublock-origin in firefox. Or block for good in all websites.
Depends on the app. Foss apps either periodically check for new messages or keep an active connection to the server to check for new messages. Some use Unified Push to reduce the battery drain of a constant connection.
You can disable background sync or turn on battery saver to limit background activity which also turns off background sync.
For a firewall app. I would recommend Netguard.
Thanks, I used it with adnauseum and it made internet slightly more bearable.
Adnauseum is the opposite of bandwidth saving in your case. It sends a request to ad trackers reducing the impact of your the data usage reduction.
Remove Adnauseum and switch to Ublock-origin. 64kbps was a data speed I think I saw in 2010/2012 and maybe, 2014 when I used to exhaust my data limit.
You need every data saving measure you can get. I would block 3rd party requests if you haven’t already to reduce the bandwidth needed even further.
I use Fairphobe 5 and iode. I am quite happy with it - have not run into any bugs at all.
Good to know. I had heard this complain with some fairphone users insisting not to buy one. Maybe, it was the default Fairphone ROM which had some egregious bugs.
Just aurora store sometimes has a few problems - never bothered me enough to write a bug report(i don’t know much about that sort of stuff).
That’s a given the way it works. Not much you can do besides switch to the official play store or risk a ban by logging with your google account in it…
How’s the software experience for your usage? I hear fairphone is slow with major updates and updates can be buggy.
Most shops in my region support Scan and Pay. Credit card and debit cards are a luxury. No shopkeeper is paying for the added transaction fees and the cost of card machine.
Scan & pay is much cheaper. There are also no transaction fees for online payments. I’m talking about UPI payments. That’s the best payments system I know. Especially, for small transactions.