Comment by tranq_cassowary

> /e/OS focuses on privacy (i.e. reducing data leakage to adtech)

/e/OS literally sends STT data straight to OpenAI...

/e/OS uses priviliged MicroG, which connects to Google for some of its functionality

/e/OS doesn't keep up with updates properly, making its security suffer, making yoru phone easier to compromise, increasing the likelihood of amongs other things sandbox escabes which open up possibilities to data leakage.

> GrapheneOS recommends running all the proprietary Google apps in a locked "sandbox"

They don't recommend this. The user can choose to do so.

> but obviously Google still gets to see everything you do in their apps

Indeed, obviously. So, obviously, also the case on any other OS.

> e/OS tries to provide [largely but not entirely FLOSS] alternatives (e.g. their own Maps app, their own email, their own calendar) that make your phone usable out of the box without Google software.

You can install apps you need on GrapheneOS providing those alternatives yourself. Android has a large FOSS app eecosystem.

Much of the things /e/OS bundles for services are just using Nextcloud and their services have been very unreliable in the past, making people unable to access their data for months. Also, Nextcloud isn't end to end encrypted.

GrapheneOS also makes their own apps, like Vanadium, PDF viewer and Secure Camera.