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I have a Pixel 6 with GrapheneOS but all opinions are welcome.

My choices:

1° Disable screenshot feature 2° Desktop mode

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Education regarding advertising ID and its deletion presented during setup (consent).

  2. Addition of internet permission on per-app basis. Just like notifications now, every new downloaded app must get your permission to use the internet, else work in offline mode.

  3. Give permission to only selected media to apps rather than everything. This is such a security risk, one bad app and it can steal whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

2 and 3 are already supported in GrapheneOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know. I was going to buy a Pixel 7 for it but the G2 processor runs pretty inefficiently thanks to Samsung's 4nm process, as compared to something like the 8+ Gen 1. It's pretty weak in comparison as well. So I ended up getting a Nothing Phone 2 and manually degoogled it, swapped everything with their open source counterparts. Not full proof I know, but my threat model is escaping big tech surveillance and living an ad-free life which is more or less getting satisfied xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Im pretty sure this feature is from the upstream lineageOS, for those without a pixel

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Multifactor unlock. (Fingerprint+ pin)

Different cold boot passphrase.

Hardware token support for unlock or boot (yubikey, etc)

Each user should be able to have a work profile.

Work profiles shouldn't be special, why not unlimited profiles per user.

Disable / freeze any app (not just pause notifications). If I have a game I like to play on airplane flights, I can have it frozen all the other time.

Prefer wifi mode, go into airplane mode, turn off cellular radio when attached to good wifi.

Better customization of the share screen, I don't fucking need or want apps to put my contacts I to the share bar. Google loves to rotate contacts into my share bar. This needs to be a optional feature, because it leaks who you are communicating with outside of the app

When using multiple users allow for notifications to be shared to the active user.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having more work profiles would make things so much easier. I could sandbox away apps into different profiles. Sometimes I need to install something and I'd like to be able to split them up accordingly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

GrapheneOS, then. It's still cumbersome switching between those profiles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just to be pedantic. I don't believe graphene allows for multiple work profiles. There can be a single work profile on the main owner user account. Graphene allows for more user accounts. But not extra work profiles..

Just a nit to pick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing. I don't know. But I think under the hood they just implemented a work profile as a separate user. But this users interface gets hacked into the interface of the main user account. So I feel like it's a kludge. So if they fix that code then I could have unlimited users all displaying in my main user account all separated. And I'd be a happy camper

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google to stop spying on basically everything if you have a default Android install.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s their business model. Probably not going to change anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly, like fishers will fish,data miners will mine data. If you don't like it, stop being a customer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is sad to say but I guess this won't happen my friend.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Enter different profile depending on the finger print or pin you use.

Have attempts left before device is erased be something you can have be misleading, so show there's 10 attempts but really there's only 4.

Be able to feed false permission data to apps so even without sandboxing it won't see your contact list and mic access doesn't actually give access to the real mic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Installing apps without having to deal with Google or shady app stores.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can install apps without Google Play the problem is that Google services has a lot of privileges in the system and many useful apps relies on Google Play services to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Aurora store (google-dependant but at least it's anonymous) and f-droid exist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Having a built-in system setting for apps you choose to require biometrics would certainly be nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Allow internet access on a per-app basis and just like what NightOwl said be able to feed false permission data to apps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Per app network permission to enable or disable access by using a toggle would be such a great addition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

GrapheneOS ftw, probably my favorite feature. Talk to the hand you scummy bastard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love GrapheneOS and just wish that one day non-pixel devices start to meet the requirements to get official support

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your 2 features are good choices.

Some developers have added the "disable screenshots" feature (Privacy Browser, for example) activated by default.

I think desktop mode is all about the hardware. My phone can do it, and my partner's more powerful phone cannot. I'm probably wrong though.

I think all phones should have hardware switches to kill camera, WiFi, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc the librem 5 has hardware switches, which are such a comforting feature to have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago