alt Hacker News> Would love to ditch google and use grapheneOS
grapheneOS only works with google phones.
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4gotunameagain • today at 3:06 PM
I would rather pay a one off ransom to google, than have them harvest all my data and profit from them in perpetuity.
Better yet, you can buy a used pixel phone.
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For now[0].
And I don't really think that people mean using google hardware but rather being mined by google software.
May I ask, if you (a) just want to be technically correct, (b) don't see the difference or (c) are trying to make a point I don't understand and if so would be willing to explain?
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[0] https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/02/grapheneos-non-pixel-hardw...