• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I see a lot of people in here shitting on iOS and not Google. Stock Android is worse than iOS for privacy. Unless you’re going to run a degoogled Android, don’t bother getting rid of iOS. But degoogled Android is the best option, if you can.

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      2 months ago

      Stock iOS may be better for privacy than google on a OS level. But so many of the best Foss and open source app alternatives are android only. Like iOS can’t even run real Firefox. Much less things like newpipe.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, that’s why degloogled Android is best. It doesn’t matter if you use privacy centric apps if your OS is spying on you.

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      2 months ago

      This. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

      I tend to think you can secure yourself some of the gains without rooting your phone, but it’s a lot of twiddling and an ecosystem swap.

      I loathe apple, but if you’re not ready to dive in, your home devices are where I would start. Routers, modems, home PCs, learn how to set up encryption and redirection to put things behind. Ditch your roomba.

      Edit; I did not mean to talk down, sounds like your on that train. Android is linux and adb is awesome (sometimes).

      Keepassdx/xc and syncthing have been awesome, rise up has a decent free VPN client for public use in fdroid.