brinerustle

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by brinerustle 1y ago
to get an overview of the degoogled phone market: http://customromhardware.miraheze.org/
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by brinerustle 1y ago
because whatsapp is owned by meta, and their business model is to monetize our data. The agreement between google and meta is not public, but we can be sure it was to monetize our data.
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by brinerustle 1y ago
It is safe to say, optional services get little adoption. Look at email, of the tens of billions of email addresses, there are orders of magnitude lower numbers of pgp or gpg keys. Similar experience with telegram encrypted chats. So having
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by brinerustle 2y ago
I'm glad to see Robert Braxman has chosen iodéOS for the latest version (3rd iteration) of his privacy phone. The reason this is interesting is that it will include an os-based adblocker and parental control (without using the vpn slot
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Brax3 to Include IodéOS Premium(indiegogo.com)
6 points by brinerustle 2y ago|1 comments
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by brinerustle 2y ago
Iodé is a custom ROM, well liked here in Europe. It's got great device support, including a GSI, and you can uninstall anything by default, so no bloat, but comes with a complete set of apps if you want. I was pleased to see they'
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Thunderbird mobile as default mail app in iodéOS(blog.iode.tech)
5 points by brinerustle 2y ago|2 comments
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by brinerustle 2y ago
I am very happy with IodéOS (a privacy-focused OS based on Lineage) as it has a per-app firewall and adblocker built into the OS. A major drawback of "stock android" is that google itself has elevated privileges, which is a strong