Google “Only spy the web” is highly inaccurate…they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps…

Anyways… I will calm down now. :)

in your android phone

And if you try to revoke their spying access on a rooted stock device, they force a reboot ☹️

Hence GrapheneOS sandboxing the Play Store. It is ironic that Google is the only phone manufacturer that allows for installing a different OS. But I suppose the fact that GrapheneOS has pushed security updates that have made it into stock Android and the fact that most users won’t bother installing an alternative OS on their pixel phones is why they allow such shenanigans.

It is ironic that Google is the only phone manufacturer that allows for installing a different OS.

What do you mean by that? There are definitely other manufacturers that make it easy to unlock the bootloader so you can install other ROMs.

I stand correctted then. Please tell me a few of these other manufacturers!

Pinephone is the obvious one, BUT! Have you heard of FairPhone? These things also make it easy to install other operating systems on them. Also Beter for the climate ig.

I actually have a Pinephone from a few years ago (2 years now I think?). I never used it as a daily driver as it was very slow and had comparatively less features than the iphone and samsung phones i had had previously.

Upon recently deciding on purchasing the Pixel 7a and installing Graphene OS on it, i did heavily consider the Fairphone, but I’m in the US and they only just started to come to our shores. The family plan I’m on wasn’t a supported carrier, so that more or less made the decision for me.

The observation about the pinephone and fairphone being more environmentally friendly is intriguing. Care to elaborate a bit please?