adam_b

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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

adam_b, (edited )

For best privacy AND security, Pixel 8 or 8 Pro

I agree, but OP said

I’m not going to affiliate with any conglomerate

So, my other pick is Fairphone, actually after this discussion with this lovely Lemmy user, it’s probably my next phone

adam_b,

You can read about why GrapheneOS support pixels only, from that you can guess that other phones lack some or most of these features

grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Also it depends on the OS, for example DivestOS maintains a web page of all the poor security measures in /e/OS

Also see CalyxOS vs GrapheneOS

In the end, choosing which project to use can be difficult just because of politics between the communities of these projects, saying a certain project is unsecure can get people using that project defensive, so keep that in mind

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