I’m most used to LineageOS but I keep hearing people on Reddit /r/privacy say it has privacy problems, while other people here recommend /e/OS as a good alternative. Assuming I don’t install gapps (Google apps) on either or I use MicroG, how do they compare in terms of privacy? Which one is more privacy friendly?
Last I heard, Lineage uses a lot of source code directly from the AOSP, which still uses Google’s online services and telemetry despite being open source, but someone else said something about /e/ also pinging back to Google at some point, despite it advertising as being de-googled. If anyone can give me links to research further on either of these topics, I’d appreciate that too.
Man, that sucks…
Wait, does Samsung even allow you to unlock the bootloader? I remember hearing something about them not letting people do that anymore.
I dunno, I havent tried. But I’ve seen someone on xda forums who got an unofficial lineage running. But one random guy posting a unofficial ROM isnt my definition of security :P
Unless they simply give you the config files for building from the Lineage source repo yourself, which is certainly doable, that ROM is no longer open source.
Not the snapdragon variants sold in the US.