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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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Do Google services have access to the camera/microphone if you don't give this permissions? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do not really understand how Android sandboxing works for system apps.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also just incredibly well-documented

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And very good with security patches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The only problem I have with it is one I have with Custom ROMs in general:

The Camera API to make use of all the lenses modern phones have. There is one single app that can somewhat hook into it for me to use my second lens, and it's extremely unstable to the point of being functionally useless.