Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom

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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

I run GrapheneOS because it gives me full control over what my phone does and gives me the ability to restrict access to anything on all applications or uninstall any application I don’t want on my phone even if it causes some functionalities to break.

Had lawmakers gotten their heads out of their asses and made actually having control over a device that you own like this a legal requirement for all devices, I wouldn’t need to be using GrapheneOS.

I’m considering switching too, I’m tired of feeling helpless.

Out of curiosity, have you had a lot of encounters with apps that won’t run because of play integrity? If so, have you managed to work around them in any way?

you can install sandboxed play services for those apps. i created a separate user profile that has it installed for the apps that need it. By creating a separate profile, you isolate all the apps installed on that profile and they don’t have access to the data on your main profile
oh wow, that’s a really handy feature, I’m feeling a lot more confident that I should switch, now. Thanks!!
it’s super simple to install. the hardest thing for you will be to get used to go through more setps to do normal tasks due to the multiple profiles you can create. i recomment you create a profile for banking, one for social stuff, one for google stuff and one for web browsing. the more you isolate each task, the more control you have over your data
awesome! thats all perfectly fine by me, I like to keep things organized