The worst part is that the site renders more or less fine (at least there is text) and then suddenly everything gets erased to show that error.

GrapheneOS still relies on Google hardware and forces you to give your money to Google. Only GNU/Linux phones offer true independence.

The article opens with no problems on my Librem 5 running desktop Firefox with NoScript.

Sure it does. But at the same time GrapheneOS is one of the very options where you can run a modern Android smartphone with precautions, and use the Play Store only for selected apps (banking, government auth, and in the Netherlands, WhatsApp (unfortunately)), and just use F-Droid for everything else.

I don't mind paying Google for a piece of hardware quite as much as I do running their OS without anyone looking out for the user's privacy. The hardware transaction is much more straightforward and transparent (although by no means perfect).

Before this I used a Ubuntu Phone, and that was fine, but like a dumbphone, you can't use any 'official app store sanctioned' apps with it, which has become really cumbersome these past few years. If using PureOS means I can't install banking apps and government auth apps, then that is a non-starter. I wish that wasn't the case, but it is.

(The article threw this error on my Linux desktop in Firefox by the way.)

Some (but not all) Android apps I can run in Waydroid. I could open the article thanks to NoScript, i.e., with JS switched off.

Just made the switch here to /e/OS on Fairphone: https://willem.com/blog/2025-03-05_durable-smartphone/

except now for the Firefox part

Same error with iOS and native Safari as I go to scroll down the page.

Useless error there is no developers console available without developer access.