Posts by rsmith22

Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones

Re: Illusion

Privacy has different meaning in the mouth of different people. I think the biggest benefit of /e/OS and the Murena One is to offer users a way to escape permanent and industrial harvesting of their personal data by the big techs. This starts with the OS and 0-data sent to Google, and continues with trackers-management for applications. What they offer is useless for people can potentially be targetted by gov agencies or criminal orgs, but totally makes sense to escape surveillance capitalism. I like it.

Re: I want one

Try /e/OS V1 on a stable version, that passes SafetyNet, you could have a good surprise

LineageOS is full of code that sends some data to Google, starting with connectivity check, default DNS etc. So definately not trustable for privacy purpose. Also it's a very game to have a fined-tuned, ready to use product, with consistency accross services, UI, etc. than doing some self-customization of a OS like LineageOS. Most people don't have enough knowledge to do the work properly and in the best case, they end up into a Christmas Tree OS in term of User Experience.