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  • It's difficult to parse when your brain defaults to "one of these parties are unfairly maligned" - when the truth is they're both shitty.

    Oh, glad someone said it.. this is a common theme on the Internet 😭.. It's okey

    It's a shame. Some years ago I got a lot of value from both websites, but haven't really followed digital privacy trends lately.

    when you're a beginner you tend to accept advice from anyone in the field, this makes sense because you don't know which advice to trust, but once you understand the principle, you look back and just know instantly who gave you bad advice vs good advice..

    If someone tells me to use a degoogled phone and later I see they're using an IPhone, it's not great look.. ( for them ).. It's disappointing ( just an example )

    It's such a time sink to gauge the value of everything by yourself.

    Whatelse you can do ? Not much.. accept keep on learning, I enjoy these kind of stuff, and the more I learn the more I realize the tools we use aren't perfect and they have many flaws... in technology I learned to be careful before adopting new technologies and not just jump on the hottest thing, I have to resist the Tech enthusiast within me if I wanna satisfy the privacy advocate ( the opposition within me )


  • I think I got confused by this Lemmy post claiming it was taken over, not "attempted". If it was taken over, then why would they shoot themselves in the foot?

    They stole their funds, git repos, subreddit.. they might as well declare it's the end of the website even though they still hold ownership to some extent ... That's my understanding of it at least

    Privacytools seems shadier though, even if they're claiming to be victims

    I agree

    This is all really insane. But there are people here saying that privacyguides are reputable

    It is indeed insane, at least PrivacyGuides doesn't push for shitty products and insult his followers for not supporting him, however toxicity towards other projects ( especially GrapheneOS ) is completely allowed on their channels...

    I'm not saying we should cancel them and never speak about them again, but if you're a fan of PG you should hold them accountable, because they can do better

    As for Techlore, 😮‍💨..I don't think there's hope for Henry... he went too far, he earned the title of a "privacy scammer" for me... and the sad part is that he knows it, he knows he's in it for a quick buck not to spread the message




  • Since you noticed the bias, let me give you the real dark history of both Techlore and PrivacyGuides ( Jonah Argon ) and how they took over Privacy Tools.io and closed their subreddit.

    https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover

    Don't trust Privacy YouTubers, trust experts who know what they're talking about


  • never ever spread them as the truth.

    How did you know it's not the truth...because I implied it wasn't.. and I don't see it as something that couldn't happen, people asked for MicroG support for years..

    ROMs without network support.

    I'm not a huge fan of trolling

    because they get money for doing it,

    I can tell you no Open source ROM gets funds by Google, unless if it's a program... For example GOS received many rewards for discovering vulnerabilities in AOSP


  • it couldn't be as degoogled as LOS because LOS is vanilla

    This is about to change since LOS are about to include MicroG by default in future releases.. Or so I heard from some Mastodon users who shared screenshots about an LOS update that installed MicroG

    GOS is private and secure more than any other ROM, but once you install the Unprivileged play store you lose some of that privacy while retaining security, MicroG is private but not as secure

    Still it's a shame that LOS can't find a better supporter than Google

    Wdym?


  • That's also not accurate, GOS comes fully degoogled, and doesn't include any GAPPS or Google Play services, you have to install them yourself if you want compatibility with Google Apps or some banking apps

    even though they are sandboxed. There is no way it can be more degoogled than LOS

    That's just false, even LOS isn't fully degoogled and it still connects to Google in the background for necessary connectivity checks ( e.g. DNS ) and Esim activation for example


  • There's a lot of false information in your statements, GrapheneOS is not spyware, and it does a better job at degoogling than any other ROM mentioned in this thread, the only one that comes close is DivestOS, and no eOS is NOT like Qubes...

    GOS wanted to reduce the attack surface as much as possible so they removed all the unecessary Bloat, it doesn't even ship with wallpapers !!

    This list is not exhaustive and covers a tiny bit of the differences between these custom ROMs but it's a good place to start

    https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm