There are alternatives fortunately. Like /e/os from Murena (I have it on my fairphone 6 and absolutely love it, no problems with both governmental and banking apps, comes without google but you can activate some google functionality with microG). There is also SailfishOS from Jolla and its Jolla phone and of course there is GrapheneOS. All of those alternatives are privacy oriented. Cheers!
SailfishOS is proprietary. I would never trust a proprietary OS with my privacy.
Android is too, so…
AOSP is fully open source. Google certified Android isn’t.
Sailfish is proprietary Linux. Gapps Android is proprietary AOSP. GrapheneOS is fully open-source and AOSP-based.
I stand by my point. Never use a proprietary OS of you care about your privacy. I don’t like proprietary Linux distros.
i have the same phone and os with murena. im pretty happy with it overall, but im having a ton of issues with dating apps and idk what to do. i just want to make a feeld account but they ban me before i can even put in any info 😑 im guessing its some recaptcha bullshit but they wont even tell me why my account was banned and they only have an ai chatbot when you try to contact anyone. im giving up but im feeling really pushed out of like the main way people date these days for daring to value my privacy just a little bit.
Thanks, I’ll probably be looking into something like those when my current phone dies. I’m not on a “switch phones immediately” budget so I just had to settle with ripping shit out of my device with Shizuku
Just dropped my old phone the other day, went and got a new ish pixel from my local online classifieds, and now I’m on graphene OS. Bro! It’s a wonderful feeling. Even if I do have to do all my mobile banking through a browser now
That’s kind of what I’m leaning towards. Pixels are cheap second-hand and having owned one previously I liked the hardware. I just wish I had known about graphene back then. I think graphene is starting to support a few other devices now though?
Stop blaming tools. Start blaming the people misusing the tools.
Surveillance tech has no place in our society no matter how or why they are used.
Device telemetry extends FAR beyond, “surveillance tech”. The fact I have to point that out is … rather sad.
I really don’t care for the semantics.
Telemetry includes error logs and performance traces.
I am aware
It’s not semantics. It’s basic concepts. Concepts that are apparently too complicated for you to grasp. Sad.
