News sites are so annoying with their aggressive internal linking. They talk about this cool new product you want to read about then, when you're ready to actually see the product on the company's page, you can't find an external link to it anywhere in that article or any other 2375 it links to.
Seriously considering this for my next phone.
https://shop.fairphone.com/en/fairphone-3-plus
I'm between it with Android or Ubuntu Touch and one of the Pixels with GrapheneOS
I'm using /e/ for ~2 years and even contributed to it a bit. All listed controversies were basically about "they say degoogled, but not degoogled enough", mostly because LineageOS still has quite a lot of Google code in them. For example you can't remove Google 204 connectivity check... until you implement your own, which /e/ and GrapheneOS did, but LineageOS didn't. GrapheneOS developer is however an arrogant dick, so I've stopped using it and settled with /e/.
The problems of the connectivity check is debatable. It doesn't send any data, just makes a get request
Don't really see how that data could be useful to Google or tied to anyone/any unique device
Using something else makes you stand out significantly on the network you are using, as next to nobody uses something different.
@amolith
You're right about the priorities, which is precisely why I guess neither LineageOS nor /e/ made a big fuss of it. But then you had the wave of people making a whole scandal based on this, humbly described above as "some privacy concerns" 😂
As for 204, Google gets your IP and User-Agent as minimum, and I agree that people have right not to want to share this with them. And "standing out" assumes you're under DPI, which is a rare threat scenario.
@kravietz
Think you can modify the captive portal stuff, on any device, using adb. I've never tried. @amolith