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1. Mr-Fro+eb[view] [source] 2025-07-05 17:59:00
>>zczc+(OP)
In other words, drug dealers are privacy-conscious and the Google Pixel is one of the strongest hardware platforms for privacy-aware configurations.
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2. bapak+qb[view] [source] 2025-07-05 18:01:28
>>Mr-Fro+eb
> GrapheneOS boasts particularly secure and well-executed full disk and metadata encryption, a security feature

So, the default iPhone experience?

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3. const_+gV[view] [source] 2025-07-06 02:13:36
>>bapak+qb
GrapheneOS goes much, much further than that, providing stronger sandboxes for apps and Google Play Services. GrapheneOS also allows multiple users, isolating things like your filesystem and camera roll from groups of apps.

You can do things like install and update apps in one profile with stronger permissions, and then actually operate the apps in another profile that's locked-down. You can also do things like install apps that require Google Play Services in one profile, but then run them in another with no Google Play Services. In practice, you can have a phone that never phone homes to Google while still running apps that depend on Google Play Services. If you're really savvy, you can even protect your identity from google entirely, using anonymous accounts for the Play Store. You can even get RCS up and running with no Google Services running or Carrier apps running.

As far as I know, you can't turn off phoning home to Apple on iOS. Nor do you know what, exactly, is being phoned home.

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