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Android privacy: to custom ROM or not (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 15 hours ago by sso0rrllo@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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With whatever Google's been doing lately to android, and the general decline in custom ROMs, I'm wondering if custom ROMs are even worth the hassle anymore or if just tweaking settings and using ADB on any phone is enough these days. Thoughts and suggestions?

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[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Buy a fair phone and put /e/os on it.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You can get them preinstalled with /e/os too. https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-5/

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Dammit. Why do ethics and privacy have to cost four times the price I usually pay :(

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I guess the next best thing is a cheap used Pixel and flash it yourself, then you're recycling!

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Labor in a country with good unions?

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Also non-child miners tend to be more expensive

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

Child miners should unionised raise their rates.