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I always figure, any smart phone I buy is going to spy on me. I have no interest in an iPhone, so my options are either let Google spy on me or let Google + the phone manufacturer spy on me. It's a case of minimizing damage.
Plus Pixels are the only ones that support Graphene.
Same with the bloat. Do I want Cortana, Bixby, AND Gemini lurking in the shadows?
We are in accord.
Then don't use your phone and pay attention to the road. π‘
Er ... Is this a joke about an Accord being a kind of car? Because I don't use my phone while on the road.
Yes
If it helps, while I wouldn't swear to this, I'm pretty sure I've never been in an Accord.
I hate how people at Pixels have no bloat they are a bloated piece of crap. And you can't remove any of it. Well you can disable it but not uninstall.
Any other phone is going to have that bloat and more
The Pixels can be boot loader unlocked and a different OS can be installed securely. Fairphone and some motos have this as well. GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and iodeOS are all AOSP based privacy focused OSs. PostMarketOS and Ubuntu touch are based on alpine and Ubuntu respectively, also available for some Pixel, Fairphone and OnePlus devices.
I installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9, and the whole process was amazingly well polished. I was definitely suprised by how well it went. Awesome bit of software.
This is the same experience I had ... After I found a reliable USB cable. To be fair, the Graphene docs do mention this as a potential issue, but I've never had the USB cable be an issue before. As such, I wanted to mention that that warning is legit.