I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let's us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
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is ios the only alternative?
Or other Android ROMS that help distance you from Google, like GrapheneOS or LineageOS.
You mean the one who stepped down like half a year ago? Also GOS is not the work of a single person, you know...
You're right he's still committing, however it's easily verifiable he's not the only one. Still I'll give you that, since it seems Micay is quite active. I guess I am a "sheep that blindly trusts", since I don't have the skills to audit the code in this case. I will assume you are not such a sheep (otherwise why would you accuse someone else of being so?), so would you please enlighten me on the verifications you've done or the evidence you've found that makes you not trust the GOS project? On top of that. What do you trust for a mobile OS?
ios is not really privacy friendly. It's more the result of an amazing PR campaign. That plus the fact that Apple wasn't really in the ad game but now it is slowly changing. In reality you are giving your data to Apple. You will say, yeah but Apple is ok, of course they are because they have great marketing. Google doesn't and Google = privacy nightmare, which is also true.
IOS being private is such a horrible lie. Techlore is really annoying with those subtle ads, even though they also often cover GrapheneOS.
If Apple wants your shit, with any of their OS you are theirs. You are not private if you need to rely on the mercy of Big Brother to not steal your stuff
Its funny that I was forced to buy a google pixel just to avoid google. Wish more companies here allow people to unlock bootloader on the mobile they own.
Its not about an unlockable bootloader only, but full support for all hardware features
https://lemmy.ml/post/12310012
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111976026139453712
Oh I am aware but I was replying to him asking other alternatives to google android, not op. I wanted any mobile that let's me degoogle it on day 1 without voiding warranty and it ended up being a google mobile.
Yup Google is a very strange Company. Chromebooks are sometimes the easiest Coreboot Linux Laptops to buy.
No, just use Android without Google. Actually if you install Android yourself, it doesn't include Google by default.
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