33 points

You can’t even install DNS66 from the play store because Google bans apps that block ads. This meme is way off the mark and I’m and android fanboy.

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2 points

Lol me who just installed nextDNS from the play store

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3 points

Do you know you can just use the private dns option if you are on Android > 9. I use nextdns too.

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1 point

Yeah I know :) NextDNS is great!

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18 points

If you are a android user that thinks the only source of apps is google play store, you aren’t a real android user

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7 points

You can still install it from fdroid or github. And there’s an alternative called PersonalDNSFilter if you really wanted an app from the play store.

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15 points

The meme didn’t mention the play store, anyone actually concerned with this stuff likely also is savvy enough to install apps without the play store.

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5 points

You can get it off f-droid

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Didn’t google only recently get the ability to block apps access to stuff like your camera, microphone, files etc? That was in iOS over a decade ago

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No, its been there for about the same time ios. A few years ago now they changed it so that the permissions are asked for from inside the app (when X is used) instead of when installing if that is what you are thinking about

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Its just now possible to turn it off for all apps with one swipe and on click. Like I know WhatsApp need Microphone access for voicemail, but I can turn off the access for all apps with one click and turn it one for all apps with access when I need it

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7 points

No, the app permissions prompts for those things have been around forever, they aren’t remotely new.

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-1 points

At least i dont have to (cant) use chromium on iOs.

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19 points

Regular Android < iOS < Custom ROM

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Custom rom maintained by Pakalu Papito who does not even have original device? World is not that simple.

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2 points

Install From Dev’s who make userbuilds with actual devices. Who said to install roms from a random dev.

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7 points

Stock android ain’t to bad

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6 points

It’s almost impossible to buy a phone with plain android on it. Google’s version on the pixel is nice to use, but a privacy nightmare

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38 points

The operating system that Google created to collect your data is secure? Not unless you get rid of all the Google services.

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31 points

Don’t confuse privacy and security. Android is a very secure system.

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Android is a very secure system

Except for the ridiculously powerful permissions you need to give most system-type apps in order for them to function (i.e. read and paint over all screen content) because the accessibility APIs are shit, and password manager APIs too fragmented to be useful.

Sometimes the policy of “you will use our API and you will be happy” is actually beneficial for users.

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It has its flaws, like any other system. But it is a lot more secure ootb than most peoples’ Windows installation, for example.

Is that a low bar to clear? Yeah, I guess. But it clears it by quite a margin.

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Android is AOSP, it has no Google at all. Don’t confuse OEM ROMs and Android Open Source Project. As someone with GrapheneOS I can only laugh when someone calls iOS more private

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1 point

Yes yes you are special and precious.

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AOSP has no Google at all

…? dafuq u smoking?

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true, but most think of oem roms when they hear android

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I don’t confuse anything. All flavours of Android are secure systems, but that doesn’t mean they’re all private.

I definitely agree with you that Graphene is more private than iOS, which is probably more private than most OEM Android systems out there.

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