People are leaving Google Pixel and I finally understand why
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It’s not us, Google. It’s you.

I still love my Pixel 6 and I am thinking of grabbing a used Pixel 8 to run GrapheneOS.

I am not one to chase the latest benchmarks. Any phone made in the past five years or so is perfectly capable once you take the bloat out.

  • sanitation@lemmy.todayEnglish
    383·
    14 hours ago

    I don’t trust Google to not put hardware back door in their hardware. It’s an ad company after all.

    social contract around Android has always been Google provides the Android as an operating system that’s open source while everyone else just manufactures actual devices I don’t want my Android phone to be built by Google on hardware level.
    Tbh not even on software level either … beyond core aosp - I don’t need any other Google services they force down our throats

    • EastofEdson@piefed.caOPEnglish
      311·
      14 hours ago

      I don’t trust really Google anymore but I think GrapheneOS without Google services should take care of any risk.

      If GrapheneOS was available for other devices I might switch but that is not the case. Maybe this Motorola deal will produce something but that’s still a ways out if it ever happens.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        12 hours ago

        I’m on GrapheneOS too, but I think hardware backdoors are a genuine concern. There’s not much an OS can do to fight a hardware backdoor. So I don’t entirely trust it but it’s better than not trying for privacy. In any case, the risk of hardware backdoors is present on pretty much every device we compute on. There’s not a lot of fully open hardware out there, especially for phones.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        I’m running LineageOS on a One+ and it’s really good. I get close to 4-5 day usage with regular use just because ask the bullshit isn’t running in the background from Screwgle

    • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t think trying to collect data on the less than 1% of users using alternative operating systems is lucrative enough to destroy your reputation and face obvious legal issues in the EU