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@[email protected] @GrapheneOS what is your opinion on e/os?

@Pellani @lexinova Murena devices and /e/ have poor privacy and atrocious security. They fail to keep up with OS updates and crucial privacy/security patches along with not providing standard privacy/security protections. Being weeks, months and even years behind on updates to the kernel, drivers, firmware, the rest of the OS and browser engine is a huge problem. Despite the marketing, /e/ has privacy invasive services and gives privileged access to Google apps/services.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private

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@Pellani @lexinova A lot of further information from Divested Computing and Mike Kuketz are included in the article posted above.

/e/ sending sensitive user data to OpenAI without user consent for a supposedly private service which should be locally implemented on the device is a representative example of their very negligent approach to privacy:

https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509

Devices being being marketed as private doesn't mean that's actually true. People are genuinely being scammed by Murena.

Voice to Text feature using Open AI

Thank you a lot for your positive and supporting comments about our new /e/OS Voice-to-text! Regarding its implementation in /e/OS, I’d like to explain a few things to explain why we have chosen an OpenAI STT API to implement it and how it’s going to evolve in the future: What we have learned from our experimentations with STT models that run locally on the smartphone for speech recognition: they work quite poorly, they make a lot of mistakes in voice recognition they are not able to mix la...

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@Pellani @lexinova /e/ and iodéOS are LineageOS forks. All 3 of these reduce privacy and security compared to the Android Open Source Project but /e/ completely destroys it and is heavily misleading users about what's provided. People are far better off simply using LineageOS than /e/. LineageOS lags far less behind on updates than /e/ and doesn't reduce privacy and security nearly as much. It has fewer stability problems too. If people are going to use a variant of LineageOS just use LineageOS.