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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by _ache_ on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:10AM (#47215954)
I must agree, you are right, GOS is only on Pixel phones.

But we have to keep in mind that /e/ has a lot of problems, the only one solved is sending data to Google. The security aspect of the OS is problematic and some key elements of a privacy seem questioning (AI integration, commercial collaborations, ...).

Fix: IA => AI typo and various English errors.

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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by soufron on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:55AM (#47216325)
Like what problems? I am using /e/ daily for myself and my family, and it's working like a charm.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by microtonal on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:28AM (#47216588)
Uploading speech-to-text to OpenAI? Regular communication with Google? Using Google for assisted GPS? Giving a bunch of Google apps privileged access (if you need them for e.g. Android Auto)?

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-...

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/GmsCore/-/blob/a9e102567518...

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/e-os-betrays-users-privacy-ope...

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Well and besides that only shipping ASBs and no other security updates outside major Android releases (and both usually late). Using heavily outdated kernel trees (e.g. FP4 is using a Linux kernel patch level that hasn't been updated since 2020!), outdated vendor firmware blobs, etc.

It might work, but it is not very secure, nor very private.

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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by _ache_ on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:50AM (#47216807)
The OS is working well, but have privacy and security concerns. Is it better than a stock OS? I don't know, maybe, maybe not, it depends on the stock OS.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by chrisjj on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:26AM (#47216073)
What IA?
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by microtonal on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:22AM (#47216539)
/e/OS speech to text uploads your speech to OpenAI. (I think IA was a typo.)
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by _ache_ on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:46AM (#47216755)
Yeah, it's a typo (I'm french speaking, AI is IA in french and sometime I type it in french instead of english).
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by chrisjj on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:12AM (#47217011)
Ugh. Thanks. Hard pass here.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by seanhunter on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:28AM (#47219207)
Reading the links posted in a sibling thread it only does it if you have text to speech enabled and they use an anonymizing proxy so openai can't associate sessions with any particular user ie it's not perfectly anonymous and private but I don't see how you could have totally anonymous and private until you have a fully offline on-device TTS model, which the fairphone guy said they tried and didn't feel it was up to scratch.

I don't use e/os but it doesnt' seem like a terrible compromise to me personally.

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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by chrisjj on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:38PM (#47221236)
It is not even imperfectly private. Every word gets heard by a partner of a kakistocratic foriegn regime.

> don't see how you could have totally anonymous and private until you have a fully offline on-device TTS model

Yes, and? PCs that have have had that for decades - despite orders of magnitude less platform capability.

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