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  • FWIW Obtanium prompts me to update itself. It updates other apps automatically but seems to require me to actually enact the self-update

    For open source apps, this is a decent list and there are probably others like it: Awesome Android Apps

    The grapheneOS Discord also has an apps channel where people discuss different apps for specific purposes and compatibility notes/issues.


  • A lot of this sounds overkill considering OP didn’t say they have an extreme threat model.

    Other things are also just not the recommended practice if you are prioritizing security over privacy. grapheneOS recommends using either acrescent or Google Play store for apps. Obtanium is ok, but they have actively spoken against fdroid and the way that applications are distributed through the fdroid store





  • I’m not an expert or even close to that, so no, not really I suppose. Can you really trust any device when it comes down to the hardware level? I wouldn’t trust an iPhone or any other phone more. Again, while I’m not an expert, I’d trust grapheneOS for software over any other mobile OS. Probably trust to that effect would be grapheneOS >>>> iOS >> everything else. But full trust in any hardware? Who really knows


  • We are both right 😆

    It is true for Signal on Apple devices.

    It is not true for Signal on Android devices*

    *Well I’m using grapheneOS so I feel more comfortable in my case but a regular Android device with full access Google Play Services? That I’m not so sure about. It’s conceivable that Google has a way to read the final notification (FCM push -> Signal fetches and displays message -> Google can read all notifications on the device, FCM or otherwise) 😬



  • stegosaur@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Graphene vs /e/ os
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    7 months ago

    I’m not a dev, I just use the os. Personally I had issues that prevented me from using it, but they have added great compatibility for Android Auto and for RCS.

    To clarify since you’re mincing my words, I said:

    1. Others are bad for security
    2. Others are not really that great for privacy

    Yes grapheneOS increases privacy compared to stock and so do other custom OS, but the key is that grapheneOS does not compromise security but instead increases it compared to stock OS.

    Other custom OS lag behind with patches, and grapheneOS is the only custom OS I have heard of where their security patches are actually added back into stock Android.

    This is such a soft response and I’ve seen it in a lot of places. People cry and call it shit talking because the devs point out flaws in other operating systems.