I really appreciate you hilighting the difference between privacy and security. Nobody understands this, and just assume Apple = privacy. It doesn’t. Apple = security. And maybe privacy from everyone except Apple, and anyone else they choose to sell data to.
As you pointed out, Graphine OS when installed presents a limited number of apps. It would be useful to know which other apps we can trust to use on Graphine OS outside of the stock 15. Us lay persons would find the guidance useful. Perhaps a video with suggestions would be an idea.
GrapheneOS intentionally doest coerce any way to load apps, but newbie users are instantly bewildered as to what is best practice to set up the phone with some sort of app store. There needs to be better guidance on initial phone setup, various recommended options for setting up an app store (or several), better info on user profiles, and ramifications on app store apps vis-a-vis user profiles, and, of course, some recommendations on more apps. Plus the elephant in the room is always what to do about a navigation app.
@TheSulross, thank you for your comment. I do my best to protect what I can on my S22U, but some things I find just aren't allowed to be blocked, or I haven't found a proper way to accomplish my task, especially considering how much I'm being harvested by both Google and Samsung. The idea that was mentioned above is, in my opinion, an excellent one. Some people who have been extremely interested in accomplishing these tasks just don't have any idea where to start once the phone is initially turned on, even if the videos are broken into sections so it's not an hour-and-a-half video. I just came across your channel, and I've always been interested in getting a Pixel device, but then at the last second, I end up with Samsung. I even want to set up a wallet, but I don't know what's safer to use: Samsung Pay, Google Wallet, or possibly another application that's widely available when making a purchase. I truly hope you get to see this comment. Or if anyone else happens to have an opinion, good or bad, I'm an adult and can handle it. I truly hope this gets to be seen by the video creator because I am also very interested in his opinion. Thank you to everyone who took the time out to read my entire post. I'm going to take out the thank you towards @Sulross ( which I appreciated your but everything else I also wrote but it might not be seen by others. I hooe u understand bud. I hope the doesn't get people vexed at me.
Y'all must have room temperature IQs you can literally install ANY app on GrapheneOS. Google Play store and services even work fine with this operating system. Y'all just need to utilize search engines more to get the answers to your question...
Thank you for explaining the top benefits of this os. I rescently installed it on a pixel 7. It works well, but is a little hard to get used to the differrences from a Samsung phonel I really like the control that is available. You get to pick your own poison.
Thank you so much for your videos! I just installed GrapheneOS today and so far I'm very happy with it. I just turned on the sanboxed Google Play, but at the end of the segment you say that you should disable them when you're not using them. Is that for normal Android phones or also for ones with Graphene? I also don't use them actively and have no idea when other apps use them. That part was a little bit confusing to me.
That's just what I do: Any app that I don't fully trust I disable when I don't use it, and you can do that for Google Play Services, too under Graphene. I haven't used regular Android for so long that I don't know if it also applies to that. When the app is disabled it won't talk to anything. When I need it again I enable it. Good example is Whatsapp: One of the airlines I fly uses it for their customer service. I never use it for anything else. As soon as I'm done with the interaction Whatsapp gets disabled as I don't trust anything that comes from Facebook
@@privacyproshop Thanks for the clarification. It will take some getting used to, turning things on and off all the time, but it's a price I'm willing to pay for more privacy! As for Whatsapp: I use an old phone for that if I ever have to communicate through that channel. It won't go anywhere near my regular phone ;-). I'll be checking your channel out regularly :-).
Depends on how many apps you have running that are always active, like Session, Signal, Telegram, Email, etc. If you have none, the battery life is great. If you have many of them, then it gets worse.
Partially. GrapheneOS has a feature that you can force it to "LTE Only" mode so the Stingray can't make the phone use a less secure earlier or newer protocol.
Correct me if I am wrong, how can grapheneOS disable sim, broadcam cpu and sim always communicate each other and always is sending data to cell towers, how grapheneOS communicate with the broadcam chipset to disable this? Cause OS is different layer from Broadcom chipset
I'm not a developer, but that's what they claim it does - disables the SIM. Check with the GrapheneOS forums, they might be able to shed some light on this.
The software overall is quite impressive for it security stance. The CAMERA application though is horrible. The Pixel 8 Pro is arguably the most advanced in Camera technology on a smartphone, on the market today, yet on the GrapheneOS I think my Samsung Note 3 from a decade ago can probably take better pictures and had more features. I realize GrapheneOS is FREE so one cannot complain too much. I do hope though that in the near future the programmers do work on updating the CAMERA app to be much closer to what Google provides or Apple provides.
I completely agree. There is an app called OpenCamera that has more features. You can download it from F-Droid. This also goes to show that the camera hardware is only a part of it. It's pretty amazing how much better of a camera you get when you pay millions of dollars to a bunch of developers.
@surfingsub5854 OH SHUT UP! You ppl complaining about cameras and minor stuff is clearly not the target audience for grapheneOS. That's why there is google Samsung Apple windows, etc. for yall non techies, gullible ppl. You should stick to those OS. It's a FKIN phone, you want excellent camera features...invest in a proper camera. But wait, yall will complain that a decent camera cost too much. Ppl who produce top quality photos and videos dont rely their phone cameras.
@@privacyproshop Yes I got a OnePlus 8 as seem better then a Google phone plus the hard were. Found LineageOS to be s bit snooty to. Sadly no Graphene for OnePlus
@miss_nainuu you know that saying "its better to let ppl assume you are an idiot than to prove them correct"? If not you should research it. If you enjoy eating a half baked cake with raisins, berries, chocolate chip, nuts, then go right ahead. The rest of us just want a damn good properly baked chocolate chip cake.
I have a personal hacher I think they know linex , what's the best way to install it if that's the case,,, it's a fairly high level of hacking I mean they've disarmed.. duck duckbill.
I really appreciate you hilighting the difference between privacy and security. Nobody understands this, and just assume Apple = privacy. It doesn’t. Apple = security. And maybe privacy from everyone except Apple, and anyone else they choose to sell data to.
Exactly. Lots of folks haven't ever thought of the difference.
As you pointed out, Graphine OS when installed presents a limited number of apps. It would be useful to know which other apps we can trust to use on Graphine OS outside of the stock 15. Us lay persons would find the guidance useful. Perhaps a video with suggestions would be an idea.
Great suggestion! Thanks!
GrapheneOS intentionally doest coerce any way to load apps, but newbie users are instantly bewildered as to what is best practice to set up the phone with some sort of app store.
There needs to be better guidance on initial phone setup, various recommended options for setting up an app store (or several), better info on user profiles, and ramifications on app store apps vis-a-vis user profiles, and, of course, some recommendations on more apps.
Plus the elephant in the room is always what to do about a navigation app.
@TheSulross, thank you for your comment. I do my best to protect what I can on my S22U, but some things I find just aren't allowed to be blocked, or I haven't found a proper way to accomplish my task, especially considering how much I'm being harvested by both Google and Samsung.
The idea that was mentioned above is, in my opinion, an excellent one. Some people who have been extremely interested in accomplishing these tasks just don't have any idea where to start once the phone is initially turned on, even if the videos are broken into sections so it's not an hour-and-a-half video.
I just came across your channel, and I've always been interested in getting a Pixel device, but then at the last second, I end up with Samsung.
I even want to set up a wallet, but I don't know what's safer to use: Samsung Pay, Google Wallet, or possibly another application that's widely available when making a purchase.
I truly hope you get to see this comment. Or if anyone else happens to have an opinion, good or bad, I'm an adult and can handle it.
I truly hope this gets to be seen by the video creator because I am also very interested in his opinion.
Thank you to everyone who took the time out to read my entire post. I'm going to take out the thank you towards @Sulross ( which I appreciated your but everything else I also wrote but it might not be seen by others. I hooe u understand bud. I hope the doesn't get people vexed at me.
Y'all must have room temperature IQs you can literally install ANY app on GrapheneOS. Google Play store and services even work fine with this operating system. Y'all just need to utilize search engines more to get the answers to your question...
Great to find this channel and a break or change from Brax
Yeah, Brax always leaves out details saying how we are affected. But I think many of us are not affected based on how we use systems.
Very clear explanations with only the necessary pertinent information.
Glad you liked it
Refreshingly B.S. free videos. Thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you for explaining the top benefits of this os. I rescently installed it on a pixel 7. It works well, but is a little hard to get used to the differrences from a Samsung phonel I really like the control that is available. You get to pick your own poison.
It does have a bit of a learning curve.
Great video, love the use of monero
Monero means money!
Thank you so much for your videos! I just installed GrapheneOS today and so far I'm very happy with it. I just turned on the sanboxed Google Play, but at the end of the segment you say that you should disable them when you're not using them. Is that for normal Android phones or also for ones with Graphene? I also don't use them actively and have no idea when other apps use them. That part was a little bit confusing to me.
That's just what I do: Any app that I don't fully trust I disable when I don't use it, and you can do that for Google Play Services, too under Graphene. I haven't used regular Android for so long that I don't know if it also applies to that. When the app is disabled it won't talk to anything. When I need it again I enable it. Good example is Whatsapp: One of the airlines I fly uses it for their customer service. I never use it for anything else. As soon as I'm done with the interaction Whatsapp gets disabled as I don't trust anything that comes from Facebook
@@privacyproshop Thanks for the clarification. It will take some getting used to, turning things on and off all the time, but it's a price I'm willing to pay for more privacy! As for Whatsapp: I use an old phone for that if I ever have to communicate through that channel. It won't go anywhere near my regular phone ;-). I'll be checking your channel out regularly :-).
@@privacyproshop Besides disabling WhatsApp when not in use, what else do you do to limit its tentacles?
@@utubepunk Only use it when you have no other choice
"A place with excessive security and no privacy is called a prison" 😂😂😂 Very True.
LOL
whats to stop malware, silent sms malware attacks? exploits etc
What is the auditor app??
What is this session app you mention at the end?
you can find it at F-Droid, or in the Play store. It is an onion-routed messaging system with complete anynymity. Works great!
So it is more secure than Signal? @@privacyproshop
Yes. See some of my Signal vs Session comparisons.
How is the battery life compared to stock google OS?
Depends on how many apps you have running that are always active, like Session, Signal, Telegram, Email, etc. If you have none, the battery life is great. If you have many of them, then it gets worse.
@@privacyproshop That would be a minimalist phone. A spare would work good.
Hey, is there any way to get google chrome on multiple user profiles? Thanks!
Do you mean Vanadium? Why would you install spyware on every user? But yes you can put either on every profile.
Would these defend against IMSI stingray ?
Partially. GrapheneOS has a feature that you can force it to "LTE Only" mode so the Stingray can't make the phone use a less secure earlier or newer protocol.
@@privacyproshop ah right thats really good. Thanks !
@@privacyproshop Until stingray goes LTE?
Correct me if I am wrong, how can grapheneOS disable sim, broadcam cpu and sim always communicate each other and always is sending data to cell towers, how grapheneOS communicate with the broadcam chipset to disable this? Cause OS is different layer from Broadcom chipset
I'm not a developer, but that's what they claim it does - disables the SIM. Check with the GrapheneOS forums, they might be able to shed some light on this.
The software overall is quite impressive for it security stance. The CAMERA application though is horrible. The Pixel 8 Pro is arguably the most advanced in Camera technology on a smartphone, on the market today, yet on the GrapheneOS I think my Samsung Note 3 from a decade ago can probably take better pictures and had more features. I realize GrapheneOS is FREE so one cannot complain too much. I do hope though that in the near future the programmers do work on updating the CAMERA app to be much closer to what Google provides or Apple provides.
I completely agree. There is an app called OpenCamera that has more features. You can download it from F-Droid.
This also goes to show that the camera hardware is only a part of it. It's pretty amazing how much better of a camera you get when you pay millions of dollars to a bunch of developers.
@@privacyproshop Thanks for the tip. OPenCamera is fantastic so far.
Guys you can easily use the pixel cam wich make exactly the same photos as in the origjnal pixel Software ....
@surfingsub5854 OH SHUT UP! You ppl complaining about cameras and minor stuff is clearly not the target audience for grapheneOS. That's why there is google Samsung Apple windows, etc. for yall non techies, gullible ppl. You should stick to those OS.
It's a FKIN phone, you want excellent camera features...invest in a proper camera. But wait, yall will complain that a decent camera cost too much. Ppl who produce top quality photos and videos dont rely their phone cameras.
@@shellz831 Decaf, bro.
Graphene only supports limited devices. Im using lineage os based RROS which works same. 😊
Excellent! Does Lineage have the features mentioned here?
@@privacyproshop My copy of Lineage keeps locking up or freezing. last night was another update
@@SonofChurchill I had LineageOS on a OnePlus phone and while it worked fine it also had strange lockups. I haven't had those with Graphene
@@privacyproshop Yes I got a OnePlus 8 as seem better then a Google phone plus the hard were. Found LineageOS to be s bit snooty to. Sadly no Graphene for OnePlus
@miss_nainuu you know that saying "its better to let ppl assume you are an idiot than to prove them correct"? If not you should research it.
If you enjoy eating a half baked cake with raisins, berries, chocolate chip, nuts, then go right ahead. The rest of us just want a damn good properly baked chocolate chip cake.
Every Android mobile operating system today, supports disabling and enabling SIM. it's not a feature unique to grapheneOS
Thanks. These features aren't necessarily exclusive to GrapheneOS.
Do they work the same on GrapheneOS vs LineageOS vs standard Android?
I have a personal hacher I think they know linex , what's the best way to install it if that's the case,,, it's a fairly high level of hacking I mean they've disarmed.. duck duckbill.
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