Thank you all for the advice. I have not installed opensnitch yet on my L5 but I did install F-Droid and Aurora and it worked great! I got all my card control apps installed, although I have not opened any of them yet to set up my log in. I have ZERO experience with Android as I migrated to the L5 from Apple so it took a bit of time to explore the settings and such before getting the app stores installed. The internet connection is a bit slower on Waydroid but other then that, I had no problems. After going through the setting in Aurora, I found that you can spoof the phone so it does not ID as an L5. I picked a samsung S9 profile. I am still playing around with the Waydroid layout before I commit to any thing that may cause a privacy issuse before attempting to log into my apps and getting all that set up. Is there a way to make a shortcut to disable Waydroid with out having to bring up the terminal and killing it with systemctl when I am not using Waydroid?
I read on Anyone Successfully Run WayDroid on Librem 5? that Magisk can be used to mask the fact that Waydroid is rooted. Does anyone have any experience with this? I am fearful that if the banking apps have a way to check for root access that it will block me for accessing my accounts and I really do not want to spend the energy calling the bank to have them unblock my access from this device.
On the subject of opensnitch, Open Snitch runs all the time and any time something tries to access the internet it will throw a pop up to let you know what is going on and choose to block it or not. The caveat with this is some access is required for an app to function but it will let you know if other attempts are made by embedded trackers access the internet within the same applications. According to the Docs, Its better to let it run for a while and research what pops up before blocking it. Another thing is because it runs all the time, it will eat up battery and processes. This is not an issue on a desktop but it can be an issue for the L5 even though the suspend function has been improved, it can potentially shorten the battery between charges. You hook up the L5 to a monitor to use the convergence and run iftop to monitor with an without Waydroid and its apps running before deciding to install it on your L5. I intend to do this tonight before installing opensnitch to see if it will be worth the extra battery expense.
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