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prince707on Murena Pixel 5 with Google-free /e/OS

This DeGoogled and Pro-privacy smartphone, high grade refurbished, was designed to offer a different approach to users who care about privacy and data-hungry handsets.

prince707on NitroKey disappoints me

/e/OS answered at /e/OS answered at https://community.e.foundation/t/qualcomm-chipsets-data-coll...

prince707on Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

/e/OS answered at https://community.e.foundation/t/qualcomm-chipsets-data-coll...

prince707on Phone received 7 straight years of software updates, besting even Samsung

The Fairphone 2 is still supported by /e/OS (on Android R) https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP2 The beauty of open source.

prince707on Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes, says study

Some explaination here? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_a...

prince707on Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

It's surprising to see LineageOS listed in the repository. It relies on several Google services, even if you are not using Google Play services, and doesn't even include microG.

For instance it is using: - google servers for connectivity check - google server for ipV4/ipV6 check - google NTP servers - google DNS servers - google search engine by default and all the default apps like calendar etc. are fully oriented against google services.

I think LineageOS should definitely be considered from removal, though it's a nice project and a great playground for ROM hackers.

prince707on Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta is here

Interesting initiative!