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Privacy benefits of Custom roms
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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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The only way to use google play services and retain any privacy is to completely sandbox them, and the only OS that actually does this is GrapheneOS.
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DivestOS (a Lineage fork) permits you to run MicroG as a user app, so it can be run within a user profile (e.g.the work profile).
How do you think this compares to the Graphene approach? (This stuff is above my pay grade, hence the question).
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Edit: Divest is only available for a handful of devices, fewer than what Lineage supports.
So are you saying that privacy wise there is no difference between a device running stock rom and a rom like lineage with GApps??
It depends on your threat model. If you simply want fewer targeted ads, there is a benefit. If you are a journalist under a dictatorship, there is little to no benefit.
as you didn't mention Calyx, are there any security/privacy benefits of using it?
Calyx with Micro G does have benifits, but isn't quite as good as sandboxing, and also doesn't have some of the other degoogling and security Graphene does.