If you use a Google service on a locked down Google device, what magic fix are you hoping for? There are limits. If you’re unwilling to make any meaningful change, then unfortunately you’re out of luck and either need to suck it up and watch the ads, or pay Google for an ad-free experience. Or you can leave their ecosystem and be free.

Its not like those are mutually exclusive. Long term vs short term fix.

Something more insightful than the obvious solution screaming in your face?

Their way out is using an external device.

I feel the pain friend. At least don’t use the phone for anything with sensitive information.

Do you hold the corporate developers to the same level of scrutiny? I’d rather live with arrogant developers over fascist and genocide-enabling developers.

Using a device that connects to the internet that doesn’t receive security updates is a bad idea.

Because going around and collecting funny elemental animals is still fun.

The original SP had a front light. The second iteration was backlit though.

How can you expect to release something secure if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing? You’re literally just hoping to have AI and the community do all the work for you. What exactly are you here for then?

Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!

Sure, but they literally didn’t build or program anything.

People curse. Get over it. Just goes to show that you don’t have anything to say about the actual point of their comment when you clutch pearls like that.

Fucking yikes.

More like, “Why did you lock your doors, are you diddling kids?”

Because its fucking pathetic. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

FUD?

GrapheneOS users are not significantly increasing the demand for Google hardware.

Nope. I just upgraded my phone not too long ago, and apart from it being a (secondhand) Pixel, Google never entered the process.

Yeah, but that would require talking to people. Fuck that.

That’s a dumb take. IPhone are incredibly popular. Painting every iPhone user as shallow is completely baseless.