It's ideal. If LineageOS, /e/OS, or other gapps-free aosp variant is the level of dog shit, I would propose stock google-loaded android is more like hippo shit, spraying your info and metadata far and wide as TrueTheVote found.
It will be interesting in the long run to see if graphene's approach to apps that need google services (like Signal) is better. Graphene sandboxes the real google code to block spying, which works as long as no cpu-level exploits are found and inserted into an update. The others run the microG fake google, which mostly works as long as it doesn't turn into a way to hack in.
If an alternative to google notification service was around, we'd be so much better off.
Pricks! They can sit on a carrot just like Verizon / Fios for cancelling OANN.
Umm...nope
My phone and laptop are both unable to update. I keep them that way.
They just want to mine more of your personal data
It's ideal. If LineageOS, /e/OS, or other gapps-free aosp variant is the level of dog shit, I would propose stock google-loaded android is more like hippo shit, spraying your info and metadata far and wide as TrueTheVote found.
It will be interesting in the long run to see if graphene's approach to apps that need google services (like Signal) is better. Graphene sandboxes the real google code to block spying, which works as long as no cpu-level exploits are found and inserted into an update. The others run the microG fake google, which mostly works as long as it doesn't turn into a way to hack in.
If an alternative to google notification service was around, we'd be so much better off.