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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I give up 🏳️ (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I give up.... Privacy is a fool's game and it's a losing one at that. We are slowly entering a world where more and more requirements are made on people to own a regular non-hipster cell phone. There are places you can't even buy parking or look at a restaurant menu without having a proper cell phone.

Maybe the answer is not to flash some obscure on life support operating system on your Google pixel but rather.. maybe the answer is to work within the system and simply adjust privacy controls as allotted?

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[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Typical GrapheneOS user. Blindly shills it without even reading the thread.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I did read the post. Way easier to install GrapheneOS then it is to fiddle with non-existent privacy controls on stock. GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS. Yes if you must have one of the few apps that don't work, sure you'll have to use stock or just not use the app. I've not found any apps that I need that don't run on GrapheneOS but there are some.

Keep in mind too, that not all apps work on all stock phones either for one reason or another.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS.

I think perhaps you missed the context there. The future for Android custom ROMs like GrapheneOS is looking quite bleak currently, even its developers have acknowledged this.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Why? Google closing android development? Lack of hardware to install it on?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago

God forbid the normie has to do anything to protect himself.