The privacy sub may be even more paranoid than the stim subs.

This haunts them in their sleep:

programming-communism

  • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    and requires that you give up almost everything that makes a smartphone useful

    that's hyperbolic, I use graphene and rarely use the profile I've got their play services shim enabled in. the only thing I have found myself entirely unable to use so far is google pay for event tickets that require it, which isn't often.

      • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        idk which features you mean, but you can get the google camera app and sideload it. highly recommend doing that

        most if not all ML features like photo manipulation or whatever else are going to run on google's servers, so yeah you're not going to get that. not what I think of when I read 'everything that makes a smartphone useful'