alt Hacker NewsUh, no. Shaming a "take" is just tone policing. Owners should own the hardware along with the software both.
Its only since the smartphone era (2008) with locked down shit devices has this view changed. And people challenging this are somehow defective, tone policed, shamed, or likewise.
GrapheneOS users are treated as 'rooted phones', at the exact same time tools that would attack and prevent corporate surveillance (xprivacy, etc) are withheld cause they would involve root.
Even this thread is full of a lot of anti-owner hand wavey shit that amounts to 'we don't trust our users, and fork you'. https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18953-why-the-stigma-agains...
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Nobody’s shaming you, reddit refugee.
It is a common userspace decision to lock things to userspace. It’s good hygiene.
If you want less-secure software, use AOSP or one of its many forks.
You’re not defective: you just have different needs and threat model,
and you’re harassing and degrading the public image of a project that’s opinionated in a very welcome way by folks in the security community - especially those who value stability and usability.
> prevent corporate surveillance
Leave the abusive relationship with those entities. Don’t lay this at the feet of the GrapheneOS Project.
If you read their FAQ, you’ll see how limited the OS actually is in retaining your privacy if you still insist on using these providers that don’t respect you.
Said another way: stop trying to solve human problems with technical means.
and definitely stop trying to get others to do it for you for free.
Or, continue: I’m not a cop.