Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months agoWhat about discovering and installing private app that don’t use proprietary big tech service, including sending push notifications?
Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months agoWhat about discovering and installing private app that don’t use proprietary big tech service, including sending push notifications?
kinsnik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i used fdroid when i used Android, but now i feel like it is a false sense of security. like, yeah, the apps themselves might not have telemetry, but the whole OS itself is a giant spyware made by the largest ad company in the world, so unless you are using a rooted, custom rom that has taken all the google apis out of the way, i still feel that my data is safer in ios than android with fdroid. the only real way to have data fully safe is too minimize the use of apps completely thou
i would use apps from an ios version of fdriod, if i had the chance, thou, so i think your point is valid
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices, like iPhone.
But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock OS, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don’t know if a hardened stock android is “worse” than an average user’s iPhone.