I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        85·
        4 months ago

        GrapheneOS dev is a corporate Big Tech shill and a witch hunting crybully asshole who abuses “autism” label to deflect all criticism, and lies about being attacked by people. Last year he fabricated a story about being swatted, went around banning everyone asking for evidence, and accused a bunch of groups, YouTubers and redditors for being complicit in his murder, with no local Canadian media coverage for it.

        • mxl@lemm.ee
          102·
          4 months ago

          You mean the one who stepped down like half a year ago? Also GOS is not the work of a single person, you know…

          • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
            11·
            4 months ago

            You mean the one who is the only person to have any commits on GrapheneOS GitHub project? You know that, right? Or are you one of the thousands of sheeps that blindly trust without verifying security or evidence?

            • mxl@lemm.ee
              1·
              4 months ago

              You’re right he’s still committing, however it’s easily verifiable he’s not the only one. Still I’ll give you that, since it seems Micay is quite active. I guess I am a “sheep that blindly trusts”, since I don’t have the skills to audit the code in this case. I will assume you are not such a sheep (otherwise why would you accuse someone else of being so?), so would you please enlighten me on the verifications you’ve done or the evidence you’ve found that makes you not trust the GOS project? On top of that. What do you trust for a mobile OS?

              • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
                2·
                4 months ago

                I do not want to insult you when I say “sheep”, however this amount of blindness among almost everyone is staggering. It pisses me off when FOSS enthusiasts say they are vigilant, but fall for the same marketing crap that non-FOSS corporate software users do. Why are people eating up all this gospel Micay and his mods invented?

                I do not need expert skills to see one person is making commits to this AOSP fork on GitHub. The commit graph/tool shows that openly. I am probably not even half as good as many people, I consider myself dumb.

                What do I trust? Calyx if you want one of these pre-configured custom ROMs for Pixels only, and Lineage or /e/ if you want more device support. They atleast do not lie about features and weasel around and ban critics by labelling them as “concern trolls”, “charlatans”, “neonazis” and so on.

                I would recommend you first read this. Please read the paper by Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix and C, on why we should be able to trust the developer and NOT the code. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

                Know that they lie to the extent of going around in tech YouTuber comment sections and claim they have $1M Cellebrite Israeli toolkits to verify grapheneOS is safe against bootloader attacks like Evil Maid. https://i.imgur.com/woNxPhx.jpg

    • OrangeCorvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      192·
      4 months ago

      ios is not really privacy friendly. It’s more the result of an amazing PR campaign. That plus the fact that Apple wasn’t really in the ad game but now it is slowly changing. In reality you are giving your data to Apple. You will say, yeah but Apple is ok, of course they are because they have great marketing. Google doesn’t and Google = privacy nightmare, which is also true.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        32·
        4 months ago

        IOS being private is such a horrible lie. Techlore is really annoying with those subtle ads, even though they also often cover GrapheneOS.

        If Apple wants your shit, with any of their OS you are theirs. You are not private if you need to rely on the mercy of Big Brother to not steal your stuff

    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
      161·
      4 months ago

      Its funny that I was forced to buy a google pixel just to avoid google. Wish more companies here allow people to unlock bootloader on the mobile they own.