LineageOS is apparently not private? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by PragmaticIdealist@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm planning on flashing LineageOS on my phone to debloat and to degoogle, and additionally to increase overall privacy but apparently from what I've heard here that it's not private enough or even at all?

I know about it being less secure because of the opened bootloader and the higher chances of you rooting to achieve what you want with a degoogled phone, but beyond that (especially privacy-wise) I don't know anything.

I've seen a video on how to degoogle it further, but surely it isn't all I need to do.

I need some education.

Unfortunately my phone is so obscure that it isn't supported by literally anything, but fortunately there's an unofficial port of LineageOS I found on Telegram, and that's the one I'll be using. So if you're thinking of suggesting another custom ROM, you're out of luck. Also you can't make me buy a Pixel - that thing ain't supported in my country (5G and others) and it's hella expensive as well.

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[-] PragmaticIdealist@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

Really. Most of the videos I've seen of him are really solid. Plus, I do think the tips he gave are good (that's why I linked it in the first place) besides this:

He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

Yeah if you didn't install GAPPS you wouldn't get any, well... Google apps in the first place. Besides this part, I do think the others make sense because they are making connections with Google.

Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

Yeah.

Also I'm wondering about whether to disable this or not, like wouldn't it break functionality?

you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

Yeah I'm also using Mullvad DNS everywhere since I discovered it in like 2024.

not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

Yep, I already looked everywhere. The Sourceforge repo and the Telegram group was all I found.

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