Comment by SilverElfin
7 months ago
What’s the alternative? Using an Android phone with all of Google’s surveillance? A windows laptop with bad battery life, bloatware, and Microsoft’s increasingly bad dark pattern abuse? I feel like no matter what, consumers are screwed.
I have been extremely happy with GrapheneOS. The built-in browser includes ad blocking, although it is not as good as uBlock Origin.
Just run Firefox for Android. You can run a full copy of mv2 ublock origin
Graphene recommends Vanadium as Firefox "does not have internal sandboxing on Android".
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How is the overall Graphene OS experience? Do you have any problems with banking or payment apps?
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
Banking and Credit Unions are a breeze for me. Grok is a no-go. Frustrating, given that's where all of xAI's new features go.
Way better than stock Android or iOS, which are basically spyware by design.
I have had no issues with any bank or brokerage apps, but NFC payments with Google Pay are blocked.
I ditched my Mac after 10.15 and never looked back. Consumers will survive.
What did you get instead?
Thinkpad, Pixel, NixOS.
I'm using Librem 5, a GNU/Linux phone with PureOS (Debian derivative). Full desktop Firefox runs smoothly with all desktop plugins.
How's Librem as a daily driver? Battery life, camera, reception/calls etc? I'm eager to get a proper Linux phone, but got burned by the awful performance of Pinephone.
Librem 5 is much more performant than Pinephone, however JS-heavy websites are not very usable. NoScript is the solution. Here is a couple of good review with which I agree:
https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho...
https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-fatigue/21934
https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-phone-review/21085
https://forums.puri.sm/t/the-current-state-of-the-librem-5-i...
Concerning the camera: https://forums.puri.sm/t/new-post-librem-5-photo-processing-... and https://social.librem.one/tags/shotonlibrem5
Getting Apple to allow you to use Firefox? Instead of geoblocking that for EU?
GrapheneOS. Linux. Gecko-based browsers.