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You could buy a flip phone

• gruez 6y ago
  That solves the botnet/tracking aspect, but doesn't solve the "I want a computing device that I control" aspect.
• tvb12 6y ago
  Every flip phone I've come across has run a version of Android.
• approxim8ion 6y ago
  Most old flip phones support up to 3G, which is being phased out. The 4G ones run either Android (so a worse experience with the same spyware) or KaiOS (which is still fine but not very available).
  • FourthProtocol 6y ago
    KaiOS is sponsored in part by Google, and includes Google software. I know because I have the yellow banana phone (Nokia clone). I bought that with exactly the expectation that it's free of trackers and so on, but no. Apps on KaiOS cannot be uninstalled.
    • approxim8ion 6y ago
      It's getting harder and harder to have free phones then. They're slowly tightening SafetyNet which makes it harder to use free custom android ROMs as well.