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Hanshan

Get a Pixel 8 and flash graphene on it. still 6 yrs of guaranteed updates.

you can get a used or refurbished one if you are.on a budget. Simplified privacy will sell you one for BTC or XMR.

ignore the Apple fags.

Sacred Peak 3mo ago 💬 2

the only option is GrapheneOS on a Pixel at the moment (due to the bootloader)

stock Android = Google sells your personal information

stock Samsung Android = Google and Samsung both sell your personal information

iPhone = Apple privacy washes you and sells your information

it would be nice if there was a GrapheneOS type OS for iPhones but there is not, yet... sadly

there are no rules on who these companies sell your data to including the police, governments, and others or on who these companies resell your data to

it took me about a year to completely divorce Apple, their ecosystem is set up to lock you in

people like to joke about the old Google 'we're not evil' and now they are evil... Apple under Tim Cook = the same evil

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Tim 3mo ago 💬 2

I’m on the edge of convince and tinfoil hat. I’ve accepted some snooping and use mostly privacy based third party apps. But I want my bank app and others to work consistently. So I stick to regular old

Android.

My dream is someone actually makes good hardware for one of the various mobile capable Linux distros that I can build my own apps and interfaces on. But the ones out there have shit hardware.

Grace and Truth 3mo ago

Banking works in the browser too.

I was just able to install the one banking app I use, on Graphene OS. I think the random anonymous login in Aurora store was from my country that day, so it worked.

Hanshan 3mo ago

The point here was less about private usage and more about self sovereign hardware usage. In which case stock Android beats Apple IMO, because at least they *allow you to get out of their default garden if you're willing to go through the trouble.

But agree about the default privacy being equivalent.