For anyone looking for something like that right now - https://grapheneos.org/

But won’t I need an account, and even without login, watch activity on youtube for it to churn out similar recommendations. First priority is not to use youtube, recommendations are a good to have.

There is this guide available for fitgirl and dodi repacks. Haven’t tried for dodi but fitgirl works for me, but process is pretty much same. Have fun

I used https://juicysms.com/ for sms verification. It’s a paid service (I used monero).
worked perfectly for me.
I needed it for aurora store.

This is exactly what I am doing.
I am very grateful to the foss community that this is possible.

I am on proton plus, have to decide between proton unlimited (1/2 year plan) to get proton vpn, or continue with proton plus and get mullvad vpn.

I think a lot of people here actually mean foss when they say open source. Calling it foss might impart the right message and the importance of libre software to new folks. I am little conflicted about non-libre open source software as might be evident by now, maybe my bias is unjustified.