Well by definition those people will be limited to Google-approved and registered apps.

I see it primarily being a boon for the Android forks. Also it hasn’t happened yet and may not, this is clear malicious compliance with antitrust rulings, and you can’t just bribe the EU by buying Trumpcoin.

Cellular modems have been backdoored for the benefit of Israeli security firms and their authoritarian clients for over a decade now. Good opsec means limiting how much data is available on any phone you connect to the cellular network, that’s just been the reality for years. I’d recommend a pager but Israel puts bombs in those…

Linux phones are as private as Linux, but AFAIK it’s VERY rough, like no MMS implementation rough. Waydroid exists, but your mileage may vary per any individual app as per it actually running.

I would be VERY shocked if The Guardian Project added Gmail alongside tor, but we all have different trust models…

It’s in the Guardian repo ala torbrowser

Signal is in F-Droid and works completely degoogled on Graphene with no Google Play. The annoyance is no notifications, but if you’re rolling completely Google Play free, you’re probably used to needing to just check several things a day for lack of notifications on multiple apps, since everyone under the sun is trying to shovel all your notification contents to Google (I assume for bribes of some sort from Google).

I think the real reason it has amped up so much is the mass availability of the capacity to IPTV stream HD or even 4k sports content live. The money in mass media is ALL sports. Everything else we consume made by a traditional media outlet exists to occupy the dead time between sports events historically. When people were pirating Friends episodes, sure, that cost Comcast some DVD sales that were nice to have, but it wasn’t worth too much effort to enforce. When you can stream live sporting events that threatens the entire business model and is an existential threat.

I think a Proton or Tuta is a better option for most people than dealing with a transactional SMTP provider, which is almost certainly selling all outgoing email contents for AI training at least if not even more nefarious things.

Well, the way I see it is it’s like taking candy from someone who says “I put razorblades in this candy” versus somebody who says “I did not put razors in this candy.” Sure, maybe the latter is lying but are you going to pick the former? There’s really no viable way to run your own email server with actual delivery anymore, and it’s clearnet in transit anyway, so I don’t really see the downside in “trusting” Proton or another provider enough to pick that over Google. To get any benefit, you would need to move things over though. If you’re unwilling to do that work, the reality is you’re just on Google and Microsoft and training their AIsand it is what it is. If you think about it, though, even if you move half of your logins to Proton or Tuta or whatever instead of Google, you are depriving them of half of what they know about you going forward.

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I would have agreed with you before Google announced they will no longer actually open source their reference version of the OS to squeeze Graphene et al. This is clearly an effort to lock down Android under unilateral Google control taken together, and on an indefinite timeline, they will win.