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If you are willing to take total control of your mobile environment, Android can give you very good privacy. Arguably better than Apple.

Simply buy a Pixel (or any other device that supports AOSP). Build your own AOSP image (which is quite easy). And you are ready to go. Use applications from F-Droid only.

Admittedly it's not as straightforward as running your favorite Linux distro, and there are some caveats, but it's quite close.

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This reads a lot like the HN-famous Dropbox comment.

Im sorry man, you are misinformed

https://www.apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...

Neither of these articles relate to a pure AOSP install without Google Play services, which is what the poster was talking about.

Sorry, my bad.

Both of those apply to iPhones as well. The only difference is that on iOS, you cannot turn off AGPS location collection, while on Android, not only can you turn it off, it's opt in.

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