What’s the alternative? Using an Android phone with all of Google’s surveillance? A windows laptop with bad battery life, bloatware, and Microsoft’s increasingly bad dark pattern abuse? I feel like no matter what, consumers are screwed.

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pxeboot 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have been extremely happy with GrapheneOS. The built-in browser includes ad blocking, although it is not as good as uBlock Origin.

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int0x29 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Just run Firefox for Android. You can run a full copy of mv2 ublock origin

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mcsniff 8 days ago | parent [-]

Graphene recommends Vanadium as Firefox "does not have internal sandboxing on Android".

	▲	jeroenhd 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Graphene is right if you're afraid someone is trying to hack your phone with an RCE in some form of drive-by exploit to hijack your browser. While RCE attacks and Firefox 0days do exist, I think the privacy improvements outweighs the anti-exploit benefits provided extra layers of sandboxing. That said, Firefox does seem to be rolling out Fission on Android, which brings hope that site isolation may come soon so that we can have both benefits at the same time.

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XorNot 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

How is the overall Graphene OS experience? Do you have any problems with banking or payment apps?

	▲	anonym29 8 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... Banking and Credit Unions are a breeze for me. Grok is a no-go. Frustrating, given that's where all of xAI's new features go. Way better than stock Android or iOS, which are basically spyware by design.
	▲	pxeboot 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have had no issues with any bank or brokerage apps, but NFC payments with Google Pay are blocked.

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bigyabai 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I ditched my Mac after 10.15 and never looked back. Consumers will survive.

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k8sToGo 7 days ago | parent [-]

What did you get instead?

	▲	bigyabai 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thinkpad, Pixel, NixOS.

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fsflover 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm using Librem 5, a GNU/Linux phone with PureOS (Debian derivative). Full desktop Firefox runs smoothly with all desktop plugins.

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haltcatchfire 7 days ago | parent [-]

How's Librem as a daily driver? Battery life, camera, reception/calls etc? I'm eager to get a proper Linux phone, but got burned by the awful performance of Pinephone.

	▲	fsflover 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Librem 5 is much more performant than Pinephone, however JS-heavy websites are not very usable. NoScript is the solution. Here is a couple of good review with which I agree: https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho... https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-fatigue/21934 https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-phone-review/21085 https://forums.puri.sm/t/the-current-state-of-the-librem-5-i... Concerning the camera: https://forums.puri.sm/t/new-post-librem-5-photo-processing-... and https://social.librem.one/tags/shotonlibrem5

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izacus 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Getting Apple to allow you to use Firefox? Instead of geoblocking that for EU?

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anonym29 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

GrapheneOS. Linux. Gecko-based browsers.