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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024
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You may also want to check out Murena. I have a fai-phone 5 with thier E/OS on it, I'm very happy with it, and 100% google-free.
While it looks good, maybe it's my ignorance but it feels like you're replacing Google with somebody else that will have the same power over you, am i mistaken? I am very much against the "all your eggs in one basket" approach after Google so not sure if replacing it with these people won't be a repeat of the same thing
I certianly agree with your concern in principle, but I also think that not all corporations are evil by default. It's important to be sceptical, but in my experience the e/OS is extremely privacy and user focused.
They partner with fairphone, they support some older hardware (etc. Samsung galaxy S7), and they have an installer app and installation intructions complete with the OS files freely available.
You even do not have to use a murena account to use the phone at all. If you perfer, you can get your apps 100% from APKs & F-Droid, and Murena doesn't know you exist.
For me that's enough.
Google was the freaking best years ago, i saw it and they WERE great, the corporation of today might not be evil but we have zero assurances about the future, and i DON'T wanna give that power over my online life to any corpo again.
Still, noted.