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Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

As someone who uses GrapheneOS with sandboxed GooglePlay on his only smartphone (with daily usage for years at this point): I don’t know what kind of adjustment you are referring to. I never had to adjust to anything, because I never encountered anything that GrapheneOS couldn’t do that stock Android could. Follow the installation process and after that the phone behaves like a regular phone, except you have way more options regarding security and privacy.

Is your friend trying to use GrapheneOS without any Google services maybe?

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frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I had to fiddle with some stuff to get the Google location history and Android Auto working. But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.

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- napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.
  
  Correct, I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly. Kinda defeats the purpose I would say. It is the right thing that this is blocked by default and you have to actively turn it on.
  
  also RCS Is this a country-specific topic? I don’t know a single person who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate. Everybody here uses WhatsApp or Signal.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly
    
    No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.
    
    I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate.
    
    RCS is neither.
    
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    napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.
    
    Well yes of course, but you are still giving away your data, regardless of intention. And a privacy feature of GrapheneOS is that it redirects location data requests to the OS by default. Thats why you have to disable it in the settings if you want Google to have this data.
    
    RCS is neither.
    
    AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.
    
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- Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And Tmobile / Mint Mobile regularly stop working and require reprovisioning every 36 hours.
  
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  - Lyubo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Look, there always will be obstacles. Do you have any other carrier option? If yes- change it and tell them why, if not- you’re already fucked and I wouldn’t comply when it’s already that bad. Nothing’s going to get better when doing nothing. My bank wanted to store a picture of my face on their servers to continue using their service so I changed my bank. You need to not be lazy.
    
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    Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nah
    
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