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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I don't want any of it!

Next phone I buy I want to start with a clean slate, I'm not going to affiliate with any conglomerate like Verizon or AT&T or Sprint or T-Mobile etc, I prefer to go rogue somehow,

which smartphone do you recommend that has no bloatware and it's customizable?

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[–] iamak@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I'm currently running LineageOS. I wanted root mainly for adblock (modifying /etc/hosts) and AppOps. Does Graphene have those features built in?

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Check out DivestOS. It's a fork of lineage with a focus on better security and privacy. Not restrictive like Graphene. Rootable via magisk.

So far I'm liking it. Great battery life (lowest I've ever seen) even on my 5 year old phone.

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

I'll try that thanks!

[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, it doesn't. I use 95% FOSS software, so anything that might have ads just gets denied network permission entirely. As for AppOps, I just looked it up, and that would be something I'd like to see developed as a feature of Graphene. It seems like a genuinely useful, and at the very least privacy-protecting, app. I don't use copy/paste via keyboard, and despite it not having network permissions, I'd still deny it clipboard access simply because it doesn't need it.

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Okay. Thanks a lot! :)

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

For security reasons GrapheneOS doesn't allow the modification of system files. You can achieve the same thing with DNS though. Either self-host a Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home, or use something like NextDNS.