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Is buying two used phones not an option? Older models whether it is Pixel or iPhone should continue to function for their intended purpose. Iphones get long updates and Pixel has moved in that direction too. Its not a good idea to use a work device for personal use and not one of the areas to save on.
I’d focus on just trying to get two cheap phones within your budget before even diving into selecting based on privacy to keep work hardware separate.
I’ll go ahead and break this down for you, so you can hopefully see where I’m coming from:
In terms of things requiring the Play Integrity API, it’s a digital lock Google introduced in order to shun any AOSP OS’s like Graphene, and have only DRM’d bullspit in terms of the apps you can install on it. Graphene isn’t easily affected, as many apps right now don’t have the DRM.
In the case of using your work app in a browser, I’d recommend making a profile on a Firefox-based browser (I’m using LibreWolf for my stuff), hardening it to the nines, adding a few good quality extensions on it (uBlock Origin, LibRedirect, and SimpleLogin for now). That way, you’ll be able to, at the very least, ensure you won’t be easily watched with bossware.
For my experience with Proton, I tend to use it on the browser. My producer, Neigsendoig, has had a good experience with Proton, with a couple quirks on iOS that he’s since seen fixed. It’s the best email provider we’ve used, as we had no intentions on using Tutanota, despite Germany’s privacy laws being decent.
For Messenger, I have a sneaking suspicion you’ll just want a device that has just Facebook stuff on it. Otherwise, maybe it’s possible to do a Facebook profile so that way your other ones don’t get touched, and Facebook only sees this particular profile for your Facebook stuff. As long as you firewall it, you should be fine for some cases.
As for custom ROMs, Google won’t be killing them that easily if I’m not mistaken. I think it’ll be rare to find an app with this DRM you speak of, but they are out there. GrapheneOS will be making an OEM soon, and I wouldn’t mind trying that if Pixels are impossible in the future (which they look to be a little harder, but maybe not that much to begin with).
Hopefully, you can see my thought process on this.
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In terms of Facebook Messenger notifications, probably have Google Play Services installed on that particular profile I mentioned… as that could be the safest bet.
For the Google Play Services, I don’t have those installed, and I don’t use apps that require the Google Play notifications in my setup. If an app has notifications, it’s their own push notification services within the apps themselves.
And for when I talked about my producer, this is him on his main channel and his personal channel. I’m his former editor, and the current narrator for a channel that’s currently inactive, being this one since the third video on the channel. I sound very similar to Neigsendoig in some circumstances.