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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Thanks to sandboxing in GrapheneOS, I haven't ran into any of those issues. Things like banking apps that are only available through the play store ecosystem can be installed anonymously via Aurora, and play services can't usurp the sandbox, so you can limit the permissions of it and all apps (including spoofing permissions that they can't actually use)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Aurora already existed when I tried de-googling for the first time, so installing apps wasn’t really a problem. Making them run was, because I didn’t want to have any Google trash on my phone. Apparently, nowadays you can trick the apps into thinking that everything is vanilla. Sounds interesting how things have developed. Maybe Graphene OS really is becoming a viable alternative.

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