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Is Google Pixel actually good for privacy?
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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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You can install on it a lot of custom ROMs, including GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
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
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.
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.
This is gonna be a foolish and stupid question but how did you check how much data was being collected?
Google take out
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.