The number of "GrapheneOS + pixel" astroturfers is astounding. The shills are persistent.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Just because a lot of people are saying it doesn't mean they're astroturfers, GrapheneOS isn't even a company with an advertising budget, it's just an open source project! Do you go to the Linux community and accuse the people using Arch of being shills?
I have investigated and covered the "security" cult in FOSS community and GrapheneOS for the past 5 years. They are the slimiest, dirtiest tech related group on the internet that projects and crybullies its way with everything.
https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/
A lot of you fall for the snake oil AOSP fork and preach their marketing.
Appreciate the very, very detailed response, but I'm just a guy who wants a secure device, I don't really want to go down this red-string rabbit home or join anyone's side in this shit-flinging match!
There is no rabbit hole, everything is presented with solid evidence and proper notes. And it should take a couple hours for all of this to be read, if you wanna spend a weekend or a night. I say that is reasonable for 5 years, and a very nice way to enlighten yourself with the danger "security zealots" present towards degoogling/decorping, whitewashing Big Tech evils, our privacy and tech freedom concerns. They are arguably the most prominent, yet covert Big Tech shills you will find in privacy community, and I am one such non-conspiratorial non-nutjob privacy person who took the pain to do this, because nobody else did.
I would like you to go through these parts in second link, it is very interesting regarding security claims.
GRAPHENEOS ALTS CLAIM CELLEBRITE KITS CANNOT EXFILTRATE DATA FROM PIXELS ON YOUTUBE COMMENTS
GRAPHENEOS MATRIX CHAT TELLING PEOPLE TO FLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO GET A PIXEL IF NOT AVAILABLE DOMESTICALLY
Also going through this comment chain might help regarding seeing if their security even means anything compared to other AOSP forks. Takes 10 minutes.
Wow, I didn't expect you to be on lemmy. I was subscribed to your privatelife subreddit when I was on reddit. Do you have anything similar on lemmy?
c/privatelife, but it is a little inactive for now. My current goal is to get Lemmy's momentum stronger than now. In the past 3 years, I silently helped crush raids, trolls, mod c/privacy and c/technology here on lemmy.ml, helped r/piracy and r/datahoarder migrate. Helped shape up rules and stuff, mostly the non- code development stuff to bolster Fediverse (someone sent me here back then) and to keep admins' workload lighter.
While c/privacy is not made by me, I try to shape it up in similar ways as privatelife, so that all the privacy community problems and astroturfing that used to happen on reddit no longer happens here.
It's your money completely upto you choose what you think is best. Generally if you want to go the route of buying a unsupported device unlocking the bootloader etc. You gotta do your research and know what ya doing m8