Why not? There are a lot of things that can help people to give less data to Google: ad blocker, Firefox, Firefox with Google container, avoid using Gmail, avoid using YouTube…
GrapheneOS is the open source android OS on pixel hardware without any google binary blobs.
The advantage of using it is Google develops and optimizes the OS so it works on their hardware. The GrapheneOS project compiles the source code, hardens some parts, and boom
I’ve always thought of “blob” in yerms of ot being opaque and hard to understand, like a blob of putty with little structure you can dig into to get at it, you just have to take it as one solid barely understandable mass to use it.
The term has both meanings. I believe the poster is implying that a lot of these proponents of GrapheneOS or other custom ROMS are really deluding themselves into thinking they are running open source, private OSes on their phones. All of the important phone code are in these large closed source opaque blobs, there is really no truly OSS or private option on Android phones and there will likely not be any until Linux phones come along.
I don’t believe that anything gives Google less access to my data.
Why not? There are a lot of things that can help people to give less data to Google: ad blocker, Firefox, Firefox with Google container, avoid using Gmail, avoid using YouTube…
Android?
A deGoogled ROM, or if you still need Google services, GrapheneOS.
Apart from the Firefox Google container (that’s available only on PC), all the rest can be achieve everywhere.
Edit: I use Android, I just suppose that an AdBlocker can be used on iOS.
GrapheneOS is the open source android OS on pixel hardware without any google binary blobs.
The advantage of using it is Google develops and optimizes the OS so it works on their hardware. The GrapheneOS project compiles the source code, hardens some parts, and boom
Ah yes, binary binary large objects
I’ve always thought of “blob” in yerms of ot being opaque and hard to understand, like a blob of putty with little structure you can dig into to get at it, you just have to take it as one solid barely understandable mass to use it.
Never thought of it as Binary Large OBject ;p
The term has both meanings. I believe the poster is implying that a lot of these proponents of GrapheneOS or other custom ROMS are really deluding themselves into thinking they are running open source, private OSes on their phones. All of the important phone code are in these large closed source opaque blobs, there is really no truly OSS or private option on Android phones and there will likely not be any until Linux phones come along.