Curious what phones are more privacy-focused.

  • Richard is a lemur@lemmy.ml
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    Moto g7 play with lineageOS 20 + microg + magisk delta I’m also running adaway and blocking all the tracker activities from my apps using app manager, and of course, using the most FOSS as possible for replacing proprietary apps. It works well, but sadly this phone won’t allow me to hide root and the locked bootloader, so no safetynet because of CTS verification.

    Edit: if I use hardware attestation disabler on lsposed, it passes

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        Both with adaway’s firewall and app manager to disable trackers, both applications are available on f-droid.

        App manager will block most, if not all tracking activities off applications (Google ads, Google firebase Facebook ads, Amazon ads, and other nasty stuff).

        If something passes through, it won’t be able to send anything to their servers as adaway’s firewall will be acting as a middleman blocking the addresses.

        Microg also has a part in that, as it sends as little info as possible to google servers, so applications can’t properly use it to display ads, or track my activity, if they simply can at all.

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    Fairphone 3+ with /e/OS. It has been 3 years now, still working fine, and no major problems really. It is expensive for what you get, but if it can help reducing e-waste and spare me the burden of buying a phone every 2 years, I think it’s worth.

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    I don’t like GrapheneOS’ creator… I’d rather use LineageOS on my Pixel 3… I also have a stock Pixel 5

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      GrapheneOS is a fantastic software regardless of its creator. Also didn’t Daniel Micay step down?

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        That’s good… he might have only stepped down from lead développer position though

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          So does he still develop for the GrapheneOS project? I wasn’t sure if he stepped down from just the social spheres or development as well.

          Hoping it’s just social media management because the dude is one hell of a developer, but seems to get into beef with a lot of other FOSS projects, developers, and community members. I don’t exactly blame him though, given how stressful the herculean responsibility he took on must be.

          Also hope he is doing well.

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    it isn’t the phone itself but the operating system on it that makes it private.

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    Currently a Pixel with an anonymous custom ROM, although I’ve got a PinePhone on my desk I need to test more.

    Cell phones are incompatible with privacy. Any phone necessarily constantly sends your location to your cell provider just in order to work. But even if that’s true, there’s no reason to also let someone else be the remote administrator for a sensor node with a camera and microphone that you carry everywhere. Running a mobile OS with a universal backdoor is bad times.

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    Cheap/medium 180€ Xiaomi with Lineage OS with micro g, been loving it for 3 years, never gave a single problem and battery is still decent.

    Lineage gives your device much more life, because without all the google services you stress the battery and the CPU way less, after installing it the phone stopped lagging completely even if the memory was full and i kept plenty of apps open.

    I went from believing i had an old, laggy and crappy phone to realizing i’m holding in my hands an amazing machine that with a new battery can easily last other 3 years if not more!

    Consumism is really shaping our minds into believing we always have to get more and more and more, and of course google will push android updates on phones which cannot support the updated version, that you can buy a new phone, lovely <3

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    Fairphone 3(+, well it’s only half way between plus and non-plus)

    running /e/OS (ridiculous stupid name)

    it’s okay - but too expensive for okay

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      I wish Fairphone would release a version with antennas suitable for use in NA. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

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    A de-googled huawei.

    Honestly, i care less about the Chinese knowing what time i go to bed, when i get up and the fact i rarely leave the house, than I do having google knowing literally everything :D

    F-droid for apps, nextcloud for my contacts, calendar, bookmarks etc