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GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fairphone 6. Google can suck it. As long as people support the company, competition is coming. Hopefully, they have the resources to keep on going after Google shits on everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Gah. I was really torn between replacing my broken Pixel with another Pixel+GOS or buying a Fairphone 6...

    I ended up going with the Fairphone 6 cuz I want to support other players. I'm not completely off Google, but I keep moving away where I can.

    I wish Fairphone and Graphene were friends... :/

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If fairphone had the hardware support and kept up with modern android versions, GOS would have no beef.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Did the same. I don't want a Pixel (especially with the 10s being so AI focused) and I'm not convinced Google wouldn't have a backdoor in their phones anyway. So the choice was wait and see what Graphene's new phone is gonna be or grab a Fairphone now.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    When I started my degoogle process some time back & researching options I literally laughed at loud at myself. Am I seriously going to hand over yet more money to the very beast I am trying to get away from? Talk about instant compromise of values

    Years later, extremely proud of that decision. Just a non starter. Buying second hand also creates a market value for selling more google crap

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    No OS comes close to Graphene in security. Second hand sales for Graphene are a drop in the bucket for Google. If Graphene went away and people stopped buying second hand Pixels for that purpose, it wouldn't even be a blip to them.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You do you. I stand by my principals and don't feel the need to pretend I'm some sort of Jason Bourne.

    Weird how now that Google went quarterly with their older device updates... it's suddenly just not the big deal the GOS folks used as a hammer, with their ad nauseum attacks on other privacy projects. Back then I could smell their overhyped, overplayed security scare marketing tactics from a mile away. As it turns out, I was right.

    Not having any google crap in my household? Absoltely priceless

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you don't value security, that's fine, but one does not need to be Jason Bourne to want a secure device. Also, privacy ≠ security.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you are willing to believe that google of all people don't have backdoors into their own first party hardware, you do you.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, so now we're just making stuff up now with zero evidence. Gotcha.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Fool me once ...

    This is google. They have a track record of spying on anybody and everybody through whatever means available. The burden of proof is with them, at least as far as I'm concerned. You can do what you want, but I won't buy anything with their name on it.

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