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Removed Comment How about autofellatio or no you're already an expert at that too. by @Daft_ish@lemmy.world reason: Disrespectful, be nice rule
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Removed Comment Don't forget that AppOps is not really standardized, and even the app admits that some phone's system does not implement a restriction properly (or at all).
That being said, it's very good to have, but you have to keep this in mind.
AFAIK lineage os has a more complete implementation. by @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org reason: No proof provided in a day for technical misinformation on Android privacy
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Removed Comment > Mobile Fennec (or pick your poison for any Firefox fork)...
I can't get behind Android Firefox/Gecko-based due to their lack of security:
> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.
Ref: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing by @FutileRecipe@lemmy.world reason: GrapheneOS pro-BigTech propaganda claiming Firefox is insecure
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Banned @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: calling Palestine military terrorists (Zionism), calling mods Russian shills
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Removed Comment Other ROMs collect data too. It's just Chinese ones collect the most usually and they are known for sending it straight to the government by @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml reason: Rule 1
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Removed Comment The problem is that GrapheneOS really, truly, actually is the only way to get even reasonable levels of privacy on a mobile device right now.
That sounds so much like a shill statement, and it seems that way from others too I'm sure. But its true. If you understand anything at all that happens under the hood of an operating system and android in general, GrapheneOS is the ONLY option for actual privacy and security. And the unfortunate part, is that only Pixels are supported by this. by @CausticFlames@sopuli.xyz reason: GrapheneOS propaganda posting (fearmongering that it is the only mobile privacy/security solution)
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Removed Comment This isn't about malware, it's about how much you value your data and how likely it is for a mobile phone to be lost / stolen. GrapheneOS + Pixel phone is the only true option if you want any kind of ensure that even of the device is lost your data won't be accessed.
Details here: https://lemmy.world/comment/8732695
by @TCB13@lemmy.world reason: GrapheneOS propaganda posting, fearmongering claims that it is the only valid mobile privacy/security solution
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Banned @TCB13@lemmy.world from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: GrapheneOS propaganda posting (fearmongering that it is the only mobile privacy/security solution)
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Removed Comment Read this: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
Unlike others, Graphene has very strict requirements when it comes to devices to ensure you're safe.
As usual if you’re looking to have any security (Verified boot) GrapheneOS + Pixel phone is the only options. I really don’t get it how come people in places like this are okay with having a phone with all their personal data and logins without verified boot. Stolen / lost phone and game over.
Calyx, for instance, isn't as good as GrapheneOS, [they do a lot of snitching on you (including to Google and Mozilla)](https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/security/network-activity/) and they [overlook critical details such as this one](https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/370) allowing the OS to contact 3rd parties such as Qualcomm.
Other phone brands, let's say Fairphone just don't make thing right. Fairphone guys have been petitioned multiples times to open their platform and/or collaborate with projects such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS so user can have private and secure phones but they don't care.
CalyxOS does support the Fairphone 4 however that's only due to the persistence and reverse engineering efforts of the CalyxOS project / community. If you decide to use it you won't have a secure bootloader anymore [due to a bug in Fairphone's firmware that they choose not to fix](https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/fp4/). That's how "fair" the "Fairphone" really is.
Here is more relevant information for you [from here](https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services
):
> XTRA is technology offered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the US and QT Technologies Ireland Limited in the European Economic Area to improve mobile device performance. XTRA downloads a data file from Qualcomm containing the predicted orbits of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites. Using the XTRA data file reduces the time the device needs to calculate its location, thus saving time and battery power when using location-based applications. Newer versions of the XTRA software also upload a small amount of data to us. We use the uploaded data for purposes described in this Policy, such as maintaining and improving the quality, security, and integrity of the service. XTRA uploads the following data types: a randomly generated unique ID, the chipset name and serial number, XTRA software version, the mobile country code and network code (allowing identification of country and wireless operator), the type of operating system and version, device make and model, the time since the last boot of the application processor and modem, and a list of our software on the device
Before you say this is the CPU's fault, it isn't, at least on its own. GrapheneOS also deals with this kind of stuff and has patches and options so you can block it. by @TCB13@lemmy.world reason: GrapheneOS propaganda posting is not allowed
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Removed Comment Preface: I haven't used GrapheneOS personally, but I've learned as much as I can over the past year. I'll try my best.
> If I installed these exact apps “sandboxed”, what exactly does that mean from a user standpoint? Will I have to use a separate account, reboot my phone, etc, or is it a quick process to use the app?
Sandboxed only means apps don't communicate with each other* and that if one got breached your entire system remains untouched, only the app gets affected. Installing and using apps is the same as normal Android, no extra steps involved. If you want, you can create a separate profile for "unsafe apps", but this is by no means a requirement and only ensures that if that profile gets breached the other profiles are untouched (profile sandboxing). Rebooting your phone is good practice after installing any software on any device, because some apps need a restart to complete the installation. It is not a requirement. To summarize: Just install the app, open it, and you're done. Apps are sandboxed by default.
Edit: The only thing you have to do before installing apps that rely on Google Play Services is to install Google Play Services in Settings (somewhere). This only has to be done once per profile.
*There are some exceptions, but for simplicity we'll stick with the textbook definition.
> Is there a list of apps that I could browse to find equivalents to the above? Recommendations here are also ok.
[AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net/) is a good place to find alternatives for certain apps.
> I saw that Firefox isn’t exactly private(?) and that Vanadium is better in that aspect but I don’t understand why. Can someone ELI5, and help me see if this is a relevant concern for me?
This goes back to sandboxing. Basically, Firefox doesn't play nice with sandboxing. That means if Firefox gets hacked there is a greater risk of infecting the entire phone (which wouldn't happen with proper sandboxing). Vanadium has proper sandboxing, since Chromium (what Vanadium is based off of) was made for Android.
Think of Firefox as a metal crate with a few small holes poked in it. Those holes aren't a huge concern, since it would take a very skilled person to climb out of the crate through those small holes, but having holes in the first place is not great since it risks letting a person out of the crate. Chromium is a metal crate without holes, no risk of anyone getting out of that box, no worries.
Cheers! by @Charger8232@lemmy.ml reason: lies about Android sandboxing and Firefox security
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Banned Aniki 🌱🌿 from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: garbage behaviour, unnecessary poking/gaslighting
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Removed Comment Since this year, Apple allows sideloading.
Apple adopted USBC
Apple allows other browsers
Edit: the amount of apple fanboys is too damn high by @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml reason: Stray comment
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Removed Comment AOSP is not a usable product and it is full of Google stuff. GrapheneOS and LineageOS (and derivates) make it usable.
GrapheneOS was the first at complete degoogling, others followed, but still have no secure solution for apps needing Google Play. MicroG is proprietary Google code, ran unsandboxed and still unreliable and less secure.
So GrapheneOS really is the only usable OS right now, it is FOSS (even in the BSD way that companies could make their proprietary fork) and other projects should base on it and weaken its security to make it run on existing other phones. This is still better than alternatives, but it is a hell of maintenance as all that security causes infinitely more bugs than just using AOSP (which is rock solid) and adding some apps lol.
Please donate to GrapheneOS, the project is not yet fully sustainable and they are doing incredible work. by @Pantherina@feddit.de reason: GrapheneOS advertisement
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Removed Post [Forbes] Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages reason: repost of misinfo/nonsense. google presumably is actually training models on everything they possibly can, but the sole source for the specific claims in this article appears to be a conversation that the 'journalist' had with google's chatbot 🤡
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Removed Comment Plus they're Israeli. Says everything you need to know. by @rolandtb303@lemmy.ml reason: lemmy.ml rule 1
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Removed Comment You are now on a terrorist list.... Maybe you can't even fly... Lol... Can you say weapons of mass destruction?
Did you call that Iraq number?
People have no humor here.... by god reason: rule 1
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Removed Comment Learn English by @doublejay1999@lemmy.world reason: ESL shaming is a form of gaslighting
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Removed Post Refute this reason: spreading FUD about privacy and anonymity
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Banned @tenoto9124@sh.itjust.works from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: spreading FUD about privacy and anonymity
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Removed Comment No one cares about your shitty festivals pajeet by @laxoje8156@sh.itjust.works reason: bigotry against Indians
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Removed Comment As it turns out Countries which fought the Nazi Reich, at great cost, which have been hit with massive Muslim Terrorist attacks don't take too kindly to hundreds of thousands of Muslim terrorists, and Islamic terrorist supporters marching through their streets screaming "Kill All The Jews", I mean, who knew by downpunxx reason: Islamophobia
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Removed Comment > Politicizing children is just not acceptable, no matter which side you're on.
Yep. But the lgbt psychos do it all the time, and for some reason that's OK. At least with Israel, it's for a good cause.
Inb4 "that's whataboutism"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my point still stands
Inb4 "Israel are the bad guys"
Look into the history of the conflict, Israel has more of a right to that land then anybody else, is one of the smallest countries in the middle east, has a 20% muslim population who they've ceded their holiest site to, and does more than anyone else to prevent civilian deaths. We're witnessing another Holocaust and the western world is in support of it
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Banned Albin from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: malicious troll spreading BS about Lemmy and Fediverse
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Removed Post WhatsApp is Censoring your Photos, Videos, Status and DMs (Facebook) reason: misleading claim, technical issue not privacy/censorship issue
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Banned @LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: be nice, do not label community problems as personal problems
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Removed Comment A, No need to trust, verify.
B, again he stepped down in march
C, o my a shitload of stuff , locked bootloader , minimized attack surfaces, harden malloc , vanadium to name a few.
D,Sounds like you are a bit bitter and a victim of your own issues by @LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml reason: stop masking genuine community problems as personal feelings to protect trolls
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Removed Comment But that's just like your opinion man... Kindly fuck off by @LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml reason: be nice
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Removed Comment I think a lot of educated Chinese people hate the Chinese government. They just can't do anything about it by Possibly linux reason: typical baseless claims about China, this is not reddit
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Removed Comment There's a reason both Google and Microsoft have been hirering from India lately. No competent person would work for them. by @BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works reason: orientialism
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Removed Comment Is it really worth it to throw a temper tantrum and be the one autist in the group? It’s not the end of the world by @manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 7M mod
Removed Comment Grow up. You've got a complaint, go make it. Being a little bitch doesn't help anyone. by @S_204@lemmy.world reason: ad homenim
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Removed Comment Thank you for the information, but please remember that there are ways to share that link without sounding like a condescending dick... by @lingh0e@lemmy.film reason: ironically a condescending comment, be nice
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Removed Comment Only a fucking nazi would wonder out loud whether they could force devs to fork over private keys. You and your Fucking fascist cronies that ask hypothetical questions should go down in a bunker and take a shot. by @DarthBueller@lemmy.world reason: Server rule violation #7
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Removed Comment My big grudge is their method of getting revenue. I'm not fond of ads, but replacing services ads for theirs means diverting revenue stream from creators to the company behind brave.
And how did they do this? Why, man-in-the-middling root certificates...
It's not only stupid, but evil. by @taanegl@lemmy.ml reason: rule 2, inaccurate
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Removed Comment Sure :) May be I'll buy a Samsung galaxy fold to make me look sane. by YⓄ乙 reason: belittling and trolling
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Removed Comment Lol wtf. In your head phone must be like..
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Removed Comment Return it. Who the f buys a fold to use it as a phone. Seriously bro, return it, get a pixel and then install graphene os. by YⓄ乙 reason: unsolicited GrapheneOS promotion
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Banned YⓄ乙 from the community Privacy@lemmy.ml reason: trolling, baiting, unsolicited GrapheneOS promotion
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Removed Comment One area that makes Twitter the absolute best over all the others is people don't get deleted over hurt feelings like on both Mastodon and Lemmy.
I'm not going to say that Twitter is a prime example of free speech, but at least some high strung self indulgent freak can't do anythng because someone put up a mean tweet, compared to all the censorship on federated platforms with the cesnorship and account susoensions only seemingly happening in one direction.
No matter what people think of Twitter, it will always sit on top as long as people are free criticze people's lifestyles. And at least Twitter does actively project against any messaging target at kids. When Musk took over he cleaned out all of pedo teachers talking about gender to destroy children's sense of identity and make them confused and screwed up. by Sha'ul reason: muh freezepeach, homophobia
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Removed Comment One area that makes Twitter the absolute best over all the others is people don't get deleted over hurt feelings like on both Mastodon and Lemmy.
I'm not going to say that Twitter is a prime example of free speech, but at least some high strung self indulgent freak can't do anythng because someone put up a mean tweet, compared to all the censorship on federated platforms with the cesnorship and account susoensions only seemingly happening in one direction.
No matter what people think of Twitter, it will always sit on top as long as people are free criticze people's lifestyles. And at least Twitter does actively project against any messaging target at kids. When Musk took over he cleaned out all of pedo teachers talking about gender to destroy children's sense of identity and make them confused and screwed up. by Sha'ul reason: muh freezepeach, homophobia
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Removed Comment Been using purelymail.com, they’re pretty cheap and trustworthy imo by @hellojack@beehaw.org reason: duplicate comment
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