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I don't believe that anything gives Google less access to my data.
GrapheneOS is the open source android OS on pixel hardware without any google binary blobs.
The advantage of using it is Google develops and optimizes the OS so it works on their hardware. The GrapheneOS project compiles the source code, hardens some parts, and boom
Ah yes, binary binary large objects
I've always thought of "blob" in yerms of ot being opaque and hard to understand, like a blob of putty with little structure you can dig into to get at it, you just have to take it as one solid barely understandable mass to use it.
Never thought of it as Binary Large OBject ;p