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flaburgantoday at 11:18 AM1 replyview on HN

What are the reasons to avoid /e/, according to you? (And not according to the GrapheneOS maintainer).


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microtonaltoday at 11:55 AM

Because why would you trust an operating system of which the companies CEO says that security hardening is only for criminals and spies?

Besides doing many other shady things, like putting a proxy between their App Louge and F-Droid (cleanapk.org), while simultaneously not wanting to reveal who owns/controls that proxy? Remember that Android relies on trust on first use. Or running Google proprietary DroidGuard blobs in a privileged process for Play Integrity/SafetyNet? Or giving certain Google Apps elevated privileges when you install them?

I could go on for a while.

(I made the mistake of installing /e/OS on a phone once and then started poking around and it really has many security issues, questionable choices, etc.)

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