This guide is by a Canadian author, but I find it very appropriate here as most of his solutions are European and he points to several alternatives, so all in all a great source of inspiration.
This guide is by a Canadian author, but I find it very appropriate here as most of his solutions are European and he points to several alternatives, so all in all a great source of inspiration.
I like the Fairphone hardware but can not recommend e/OS - Murena is making false privacy claims about their software and are not interested in fixing them. Sadly Graphene has stated that Fairphone will likely not be supported in the future as their current models are lacking necessary hardware.
I ended up with a used Pixel and installed Graphene, I’m happy with it as a daily driver and am doing my online banking in the browser on my PC.
Do you really recommend Android over /e/OS for Fairphone?
I think you’re exaggerating with “Murena making false claims and not interested in fixing” - I think they’re just lacking the resources to do what they want to do. I think they have a good idea to fix the lack of resources by making money by selling pre-installed devices.
Maybe Murena’s few resources would have been better invested in developing a version of GrapheneOS for some European device.
As far as I recall, if you’re an ordinary everyday user, Fairphone should be fine - but if your threat model is too severe, a used Pixel (cleant) with GrapheneOS should be warranted, no?
I dropped it as a daily driver when I noticed that Here We Go maps just naturally circumvents their advanced privacy location spoofing. Tested this with two devices and the issue appeared in both. Maps showed my real location.
Graphene might be a bit overkill for me, but I rather am too careful than rely on false advertising and leak real information unknowingly.
Yeah, I have that problem in my /e/OS 3.4 A15, and another one, also a failure of the main feature, privacy protection, this time with file permissions:
https://community.e.foundation/t/app-permissions-failure-can-see-all-files-despite-limited-access/69483
You shouldn’t blame the whole forum when a dumbass goes off topic in a thread - it happens. Your title was clear, and the topic was clearly the privacy of /e/OS, one example application as proof of /e/OS’s failure, and the dumbass started talking about the example application and alternatives to it…