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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by NGC2346@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They most likely won't work. Just speculation, but I would imagine most software that "needs" information like GPS don't care that its on or off, they care that they try to pull data and there is none.