The operating system that Google created to collect your data is secure? Not unless you get rid of all the Google services.
Don’t confuse privacy and security. Android is a very secure system.
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
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.
true, but most think of oem roms when they hear android
When I hear Android, I think of Android. And that word encompasses everything imo. That’s how most people use the word in my experience.
If someone means AOSP specifically, they’ll say AOSP
AOSP has no Google at all
…? dafuq u smoking?
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.
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.
The whiplash between posts on Lemmy is so great.
Everyone seems to hate google and how invasive they are while simultaneously simping for google’s mobile OS
This shit is so stupid.
Android can be whatever a dedicated community wants it to be, since it’s open source at its AOSP core.
I love AOSP, but I hate what Google does with it. Or most other manufacturers, for that matter.
If one person believes one thing and another person believes the opposite, that doesn’t mean they’re hypocrites. That means there isn’t a consensus. Besides, android can be better than iOS and deserving of criticism at the same time.
Android is less secure then apple tbh its so bloated with Google crap
IOS has DNS profiles.
Privacy on graphene os
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
