New graphene users first day

You’re right about the consensus, but as others have pointed out, Accrescent seems to be a work in progress. I would not take presence in the Accrescent store as an endorsement. You can restrict google services to a user profile or private space if you use them occasionally. User profiles are also good for web apps, or any app, you only use occasionally that you want to make sure don’t get to talk to anything else. App verifier is useful when devs publish their dev signature for you to check with. Then its pretty easy to verify from clipboard. But few devs do this, and usually its on the same git repo your downloading from. There are devs in its database, but they stopped accepting new entries. Most of the time, all you have to go on is the security of and tls cert from github, codeberg, etc. Some developers get around f-droids signing and patch lag issues by hosting their own repo. More devs should share their cert fingerprints or host their own f-droid repos. @Encounter5729 If your issue with obtainium is the random errors Obtainium gives you about failing to check for updates, It just tries again later. Wouldn’t worry about it.