Comment by colordrops 5 days ago
Did you read the thread? Google devices are orders of magnitude more private if you install a custom rom like graphene OS or lineage + microg.
Apple is pretty much the same as a vanilla google phone in comparison.
Semantics. It's still a Pixel device regardless of the software. The OS is still Android. Android is open source.
Look into it rather than speaking out of ignorance.
There are several ways to block ads on Android. First and most-important, with a de-googled OS like Lineage or /e, the built-in tracking functionality just isn't there.
To blame the OS for an app spying on you is like saying Firefox is spying on you for Google because a webpage has a google tracker in it. Nonsense. An app is not the same as the OS. You can just not install the app like you would not visit the page.
But even then, open source android has many ways to block ads if you do want to install shitty apps that track you.
- The AdAway app that uses host file updates
- App Warden, which actually disables tracking libraries in apps
- LineageOS has the ability to turn off network access for apps that don't need them
- AFWall+ for app-level firewall rules.
The OS is absolutely not spying on you and actually gives you tools to stop spying. You can't say this AT ALL about Apple or vanilla Google Android.
And so is apple
> Google devices are orders of magnitude more private if you install a custom rom like graphene OS or lineage + microg.
Sure, but then it ceases being a Google device. The discussion is focused around Pixel, as is, vs. Apple/iOS, in which case Apple wins by far in that aspect.