195
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
195 points (93.3% liked)
Google Pixel
5906 readers
5 users here now
The World's Google Pixel community!
This community is for lemmings to gather and discuss all things related to the Google Pixel phone and other related hardware. Feel free to ask questions, seek advice, and engage in discussions around the Pixel and its ecosystem.
We ask you to be polite when addressing others and respect Lemmy.world's rules.
NSFW content is not allowed and will immediately get you banned.
It also goes without saying that self-promotion of any nature and referral links are not allowed. When in doubt, contact the mod team first.
Also, please, no politics.
For more general Android discussions, see !android@lemmy.world.
This community is not in any way affiliated with Google. If you are looking for customer support regarding your Pixel phone, look here instead: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
This just strengthens the argument to install privacy/security first operating systems like CalyxOS and GrapheneOS. I don't was a phone that's more a service subscription than it is hardware. I have the pixel 8 and didn't get the pro due to the offloading to Google servers for some "features".
Just waiting for GrapheneOS to be released for the 8... Until then, I'm sitting uncomfortable knowing my phone is uploading telemetry to Google servers...
I've bitten the bullet, replaced my Redmi 13 to a Pixel 7 + GrapheneOS - because the MIUI spyware and google spyware are just too much... I still don't get why , as an owner of a phone , I'm not the owner of the phone.
I can't put grapheneOS on my p7 since at&t sells phones with locked bootloaders. I didn't know this when I bought it or I wouldn't have bought it.
Oh yeah, only unlocked phones can boot custom os, carrier locked are not. Unfortunate you had to find out the hard way. I could've sworn it was on graphene's website or something.
Well, yes, however, installing GrapheneOS may mean not having access to "features" which were part of the marketing for the phone... Which begs the question around what are you paying for? To me, it's like you are paying for a product and also for services. Although the p8 and p8p both have 7 years of support, I wonder if that extends to features and services that are cloud based?
Yea, Google features are very anti privacy, it's funny how it's still one of the most secure phones on the market. I got the pixel 8 for the fact its going to be supported with GrapheneOS, and get 7 years of security updates.
Currently using GrapheneOS on my 8 Pro, and the experience has been extremely smooth so far.
Yea I was tempted for a second to get it, but there was a comment that it "should" be possible to upgrade to the released version when available, I don't want to have to mess around in the event that it's not. So I'm just going to wait a week or so.