apks and F-Droid Apps I install (default apps, Signal, Tutanota, etc.) which, coupled with web apps, is all they need. Since most of my family is not technical, I put them on COS with MicroG disabled and Aurora Store not installed. No, it's not *as* secure as GOS with its custom hardening, but it's secure-enough while providing more stability (in my experience) than GOS. I'll be sticking with F-Droid.Īs for CalyxOS vs GrapheneOS, I prefer CalyxOS, because it follows the AOSP security model. As I've found out, though, the data collection extends to the mobile app, which isn't cool. As for the privacy, if cookies/Google Analytics were employed on uptodown's website but not collecting information from their mobile app, that's fine by me. My source for the *security* of uptodown being good was Vivaldi's independent analysis of the platform. Google is extremely privacy invasive, but their security is definitely top-notch. I hope this all helped, have an amazing rest of your day! Again, not trying to force you to switch, but just wanted to put it out there. Graphene also now has the capabilities for sandboxed Google Play Services, something which is not only more secure than MicroG by a large margin, but since they're the real Google Play Services (just sandboxed and with restricted permissions), more apps actually work better already when compared to MicroG.

Calyx is significantly less secure than GrapheneOS. You'll have more apps and you won't get infested with whatever shit that that website is shipping.Īlso a bit of a note to you, take this advice or leave it, just wanted to put it out there.

The is quite literally no reason to stray from F-Droid and Aurora Store. Third, their 'top' apps are shaky - half of them I've never even heard of, the other half are TikTok and Facebook. Second, I'm fairly confident that their site banner (the one of the people having a bbq) is straight up stolen from a Telegram blog post. First, they employ Google Tag Manager, GStatic, and tracking cookie practices.

A quick review of their site just sets of a thousand and one red flags. I'm not sure where you got the idea that their security is robust.

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