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Whenever a malicious app breaks or scammers get to you, its always through the google play store. Their shit isnt even safe to make this fucken claim about safety.
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Remember Change.org is a for profit company, when they ask you to “chip in”, do not do that, if you wish to chip in donate to an advocacy org that fights stuff like this such as the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
This is a nice list I’d consider for new phones.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
- Fairphone (Netherlands)
- Hiroh (USA)
- SHIFTphone (Germany)
- Teracube (USA)
- Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
- Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
- Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
- Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)
Purism is a grift, should be removed.
Many people are still waiting on phones they ordered years ago.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
We all love grapheneOS, but please stop buying Google Pixels to do it. It’s such a contradicting action to first stuff googles pocket with even more money, and then be like “I am privacy conscious.” Please spend your money on alternatives that will put the money to actually developing good alternatives like FairPhone.
Second hand and refurbished is a thing
This is the reason I’ve disabled automatic system updates since 2024.
Same, but that only lets the user delay the update, not avoid it. They eventually force every update scheduled for a non-peak time in the middle of the night while we’re sleeping. Or please let me know if you’ve found a way around that.
I’m not sure; according to my Samsung update it says the last update was 2 August 2025.
If I disable updates, will that prevent Android from uninstalling my 3rd party apk?
I don’t think it will automatically uninstall sideloaded apps in your phone, it simply prevent sideloading from unregistered developers. There is an “official” way to circumvent it, doing it directly on the phone is a bit convoluted and require you to wait 24 hours, the other way need a PC and USB cable to install apps with
adb–that one is just like usual.https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
I wonder if f-droid will be able to function with only a 24 hour unlock. probably not.
The 24-hour wait time is once only
unless you choose the option to only unlock it for 24 hours. which, honestly, could make sense for the technically illiterate.
Will it effect free custom ROMs like lineage?
Not directly, but they’ve been making other moves to make life difficult for such users — such as significantly delaying releasing the open source parts they’re supposed to, potentially leaving users on insecure versions for far longer.
The only reason I have an android is that the laundry app I’m forced to use runs through it. It’s literally only still surviving because capitalism contrived a way to tie it to my basic needs.
Laundry… app?
It’s exactly as stupid as it sounds. Landlord decided we need to pay through an app. My budget overrules my principles, and the local laundry mats are at least five times the price, so… Yeah.
So, do I finally need to learn about GrapheneOS? What are other people doing?
Graphene is by far the best. I highly recommend it.
Right now you need a Pixel to run it but soon you can get a Motorola that works with it.
Soon? Was there an update with a timeline? Last I saw it was only ‘announced’ And there’s no ETA
This is why I’m happy about Motorola next year
With some luck I’ll have time to put together my diy palmtop-esque machine, but we’ll see if that works out.
I really hope the Motorola thing actually pans out. Based on the general state of things I’m done with both Apple and Google.
