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I'll switch my Pixel over to GrapheneOS if this happens

Why wait? I’ve never installed many apps on my phone, but I don’t have any problems using graphene. My bank nor credit card apps have any problem.

It's mainly the lack of emergency services support in my country. Every time I called the operator can't see where I am through GPS, first question asked was what state im in.

That might be because GrapheneOS by default scrambles your GPS location but I think you should be able to turn that off?

I used GrapheneOS for about half a year as my primary phone OS. It does not scramble your GPS in any way (it has the same course/fine-grained GPS permissions as regular Android), but it does allow you to block a lot more app permissions. It's more likely that they haven't set the correct permission(s) for that information to bubble through to emergency services.

I would also be surprised if there weren't cell phone system-based fallbacks for emergency services. The carriers have a good idea of where you're at based on the towers you're connected to. There are plenty of situations where GPS doesn't work.

Step 1: Block non-approved install of apks in my devices

Step 2: Block non-approved install of Operating Systems in my devices

Deeply mine: Alphabet Inc.

I expect the only entity powerful enough to create a fork of android, hardware included, is the CCP. Between a rock and a sword.

Why would you kneecap yourself on hardware and get a Pixel over an iPhone if not to install Graphene as the very first action post-unboxing?

Graphene is the only reason I own any pixel devices.

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