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GrapheneOS makers take a knife to this 'Google-free' phone coming to the US (Updated)
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To be fair part of your this is sensationalist "reporting" as above where single tweets (or parts of conversations, etc.) are taken and reported on without offering context.
Yeah, that tends to happen. Not everyone has the knowledge or the capacity to (learn what a threat model is and) create a threat model and then make calls based on that. But that is not unique to Graphene, that happens everywhere (Streamer promoting/judging video games, Pop stars promoting/judging politicians, etc).
But in this specific case I would argue that is more of a good thing - even if some people don't understand the fine details and they just heard "more security, more control, more features" . The increased userbase gives Graphene more leverage and in a just world big companies and countries would maybe rethink their approach to data collection.
Personally I also hope that Graphene and Fairphone talk with each other instead about each other, because together they could create a fantastic device.
This isn't even an issue from Fairphone's perspective. It's devices are supported by every other privacy-based ROM out there and its primary focus is on shipping and supporting devices with "stock" Android. As I said above, there is nothing actually wrong with Fairphone devices from a security perspective compared to the majority of its competitors, and even those issues that do exist are fringe cases that consumers do not care about.
The only reason this discussion about "GrapheneOS on Fairphone" keeps resurfacing is because of the cult-like behaviour I described elsewhere in this thread, where GrapheneOS is so widely recommended without context that people new to this space think it is the only solution to stock Android's privacy issues. So they keep pestering the GrapheneOS team, asking for something that has been resolutely denied on multiple occasions previously, provoking a response that inevitably gets recirculated on social media and run as content on "news" sites. And then we get comments lile yours that frame GrapheneOS on Fairphone as an achievable and realistic thing that could happen with better communication, even though neither party is interested in pursuing that.