Does anyone really ever have the time for that? I’ll leave it to the journos who being paid to look for a juicy scoop to tell me when they put something utterly egregious in there.
And yes, Google IS notoriously bad, but you know what, I don’t HAVE to use their apps on my phone because Apple Maps is actually fairly good these days (and far more privacy focused, supposedly they process your data in a way that makes it impossible for them to create a comprehensive location profile, but I digress).
But you know, if you’re worried about such things, I literally can’t thing of a worse thing to do than to run an entire OS that is literally made by an advertising-based spyware company. If you run stock Android, you’re basically trusting Google with root access to your entire digital life. If you think Google Maps is bad, handing them your entire phone on a silver platter is definitely far worse.
@MacNCheezus I’m not denying this, just figured I’d bring up that there’s a lot that can go towards failing you, privacy-wise.
Apple has it’s own host of problems (third-party repair lockouts being high on the list of them when I think about it) but if privacy is the primary concern they seem pretty good.
Sure, the OS is closed source and so is the review process, you kinda have to trust them to actually do what they promise. For everyday normal life stuff, it’s likely safe enough though. Obviously, if you’re a spy or a whistleblower operating in some high stakes scenarios, you’ll probably want something else, but you also probably don’t want Android unless it’s been seriously hardened (i.e. something like Graphene).