Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers

Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers by nextos on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:03PM (#19655064)

I would be a bit reluctant to run CopperheadOS now. Sadly the main developer left after somewhat hostile actions from the CEO, and there have been lots of changes in the organization.

IMHO the best option for a secure phone is pure Android without Google blobs. That is, AOSP on a Pixel phone. Plus an F-Droid userland.

If a Pixel is too expensive, you can always try to get an AOSP device-independent image on a new phone that supports Treble. For example, the super cheap Nokia 1 seems to work well [1].

[1] https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki

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Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers by EvangelicalPig on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:33PM (#19657446)

I think the main developer took a break for a bit and he's back with a new project (in beta) called GrapheneOS.

I don't have a supported device so I can't comment.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/

https://seamlessupdate.app/ (website)

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Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers by danvittegleo on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#19655257)

Agreed. For anyone interested in doing their own monthly signed AOSP builds for Pixel phones with OTA updates, take a look at a project that I built that fully automates the process in AWS: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack.

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Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers by ignoramous on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:11PM (#19655110)

AOSP is clean, but doesn't have anti tracking measures available in CopperheadOS: fake IMEI or MAC addresses (this has been mainlined in Android Q, though), for instance.

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