I hate that most people don’t want to care for convient’s sake… “You’re only making your life harder for yourself”. I simply want to be in control, not the corpos.

If you main issue is the need to download apps from the Play Store, consider Aurora Store.

No app on GOS has root access. Not even Play services, the whole point of the sandboxing. You remain in control over the app’s permissions, as you mentioned.

[…] and as another user said they are somewhat sandboxed.

I was shocked to find out that the hardest part of the installation was finding a Chromium based browser on PC lol

All you have to do to install GrapheneOS is press one button in the WebUI. No other ‘ROM’ has been easier to install.

I’m glad if they take my account down for me, actually

Makes sense. Whenever I open Firefox, of opens on the (empty) homescreen where I can start typing in the URL bar right away. But everyone has got their own ways!

It gets me wondering, I have never use a search bar widget in my life and I find them rather setting in the way… My search bar is just 1 tap away inside Firefox, which is also on the desktop… I’ve not seen many people around me use it

Do people really use it?

I suggest Droid-ify over the F-Droid store for ease of use, but both work fine

To me I love to have control over what I update, I agree with it not being inconvenient. For other it might so it’s not really necessary to be mean about it!

Definitely do! I also suggest Droid-ify for FOSS apps :)

It does function just like any other phone so far I’ve tested. No app that simply doesn’t work. And if it doesn’t, you can simply exploit the GOS hardening in settings to improve compatibility. You overall have more control over any app, which I like

What?

Yup. Fearing the same as well. All I’m asking for is a car, not a Windows computer.

Been using Proton for over 4 years now, and have had no issues with it. I don’t use folders or tags that much, but if you are a paid member, you get unlimited of those. They recently announced calander invites (I personally never want to use them) and it looks like it should work fine. Proton also has unlimited aliases to hide your actual address, which I use all the time (coming over from SimpleLogin.)

The bundle (mail, VPN, calander, pass and drive) is really bang for the buck for what you get, even though you don’t use some of them. You can always upgrade to it later if you wish. And in case you don’t plan on paying, the free versions work just as you expect!

If you have any questions, just ask!

Eh, I think having a PiHole at home internet and a private DNS on phone is good enough for me. Not to mention uBlock configured with the Anti-Facebook list 🤷‍♂️

Any big company can’t be trusted. They got big with a reason :)

All big tech is. They got big for a reason. Though I find Mozilla much less of a thread than other corps like Google, Meta, Microsoft. Meta I find easy to block as none of their services are actually useful. Google is a tad bit harder, and Microshit creeps in on every spot and I don’t like it.

Yeah I found that out as I was looking for sources, but you guys are quick to comment, aha!

Waterfox was bought by an ad company.

Edit: According to this page it’s no longer the case, though I still am not completely comfortable with it.

True, but we don’t get to choose a whole lot when it comes to Google. I personally don’t have Google Services on my phone and would like to keep it that way - so I’m not up to date what Google is pulling off these days :)

I might have misunderstood this but Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade

Android Google

This may also be known as privacy washing, but as another comment said, this way might be better than just not getting this choice at all

Exactly what I thought. And a bad AI as well

ING has no issue with rooted devices, but warns about the weakened security. If your account gets breached due to it, it’s on your behalf.

… what.