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Is Google Pixel actually good for privacy? (lemmy.basedcount.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I hear many people say that the Google Pixel is good for privacy, but is it?

I'm asking this because I find it weird, of all the companies, Google having the most “privacy”.

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[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can install on it a lot of custom ROMs, including GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

additionally you don't need to jump across several hops to flash custom roms on Pixel phones (or tablets)
it's easy as using a web browser

meanwhile custom roms on Xiaomi or Samsung are a huge pita to setup and require almost shady looking korean or chinese (windows) applications

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

About how Pixel is more private.. Pixel 'only' has Google's tracking; other manufacturers have their own tracking, *on top/in addition* to Google's tracking.

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installed GrapheneOS and adjusted my google settings to track everything they can, then I checked to see how much data that got collected, it is almost nothing.

[–] AzureRT@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is gonna be a foolish and stupid question but how did you check how much data was being collected?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 year ago

Google take out

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Under GDPR you have the right to download the data they have about you, so google has a page where you can do that. That being said I doubt that is everything they track, I'm probably still getting fingerprinted and tracked by ip, but still thats a lot less info collected on me and most importantly that data is less valuable to sell.