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So who did you go with? Because stock android ain’t much better privacy wise.
I'd recommend using GrapheneOS. (i'm using it, and it is a breath of fresh air)
On what phone?
What phone I have? Pixel 8 Pro (I bought it specifically for GrapheneOS, otherwise I wouldn't have bought a Pixel, als the original Pixel ROM is laggy as fuck)
Supported Devices are all Pixels since the Pixel 5a. https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
My Pixel 4a is slower with GrapheneOS than stock. Disabling GrapheneOS' Secure App Spawning helps noticeably.
With newer hardware it's likely not noticeable. (The 4a is old and even only receives security updates by GrapheneOS (no firmware updates by Google), so I really should replace it at some point.)
So a 4 year old phone isn’t supported by Google anymore?
Yeah, only starting with the Pixel 8 they promised 7 years of support
Let's see how that will go in 4 years...
Yup it's not noticable on the Pixel 8
no, but on android you have firefox.. and you have f-droid with tons of OSS applications - and a lot of them are really good, so you can ignore everything made by google.
GrapheneOS running on Pixel phone.