It’s a joke mentioning “Android” and “Privacy” in the same sentence.
Google can add whatever permission structure and features they way but as long as you, the owner and use of the service, is not allowed to set whatever permissions and/or remove whatever apps you like you do not have any privacy.
I’ve owned q Android phones as my personal phone since my first Galaxy S3 but I don’t have any illusion regarding privacy as long as Google and Samsung are the true masters over my device.
For example…The devices sold today are fully capable of even firewalling on app level so that the user would be able to control exactly what hosts the Chinese app he/she installed is able to talk to.
With that said:
With market share of less than 3 million out of the billions of Android devices sold I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter how good Lineageos is in this discussion.
How many different devices are officially supported by Lineageos? 150?
How many different devices have official LineageOS support offered by the hardware vendors?
My point is that LineageOS is not an alternative if I’m not an enthusiast or I’m not willing to risk getting into a heated discussion about warranty if my device breaks.
Furthermore, since not even Google release open source drivers for their devices there is only so much LineageOS can do when the hardware vendors decides a certain Android version is the last version supported on a device.
So just because I can put together my own version of privacy first Android it doesn’t mean I can actually run it on my device.
It’s a joke mentioning “Android” and “Privacy” in the same sentence.
Google can add whatever permission structure and features they way but as long as you, the owner and use of the service, is not allowed to set whatever permissions and/or remove whatever apps you like you do not have any privacy.
I’ve owned q Android phones as my personal phone since my first Galaxy S3 but I don’t have any illusion regarding privacy as long as Google and Samsung are the true masters over my device.
For example…The devices sold today are fully capable of even firewalling on app level so that the user would be able to control exactly what hosts the Chinese app he/she installed is able to talk to.
But noooo… Who would want such an feature?
opinion on lineageos?
First: I run LineageOS on my S5.
With that said: With market share of less than 3 million out of the billions of Android devices sold I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter how good Lineageos is in this discussion.
How many different devices are officially supported by Lineageos? 150? How many different devices have official LineageOS support offered by the hardware vendors?
My point is that LineageOS is not an alternative if I’m not an enthusiast or I’m not willing to risk getting into a heated discussion about warranty if my device breaks.
Furthermore, since not even Google release open source drivers for their devices there is only so much LineageOS can do when the hardware vendors decides a certain Android version is the last version supported on a device.
So just because I can put together my own version of privacy first Android it doesn’t mean I can actually run it on my device.
there’s also graphene and a few others or linux phones I guess