lemmysmash

Great overview! One thing to add here is this amazing comparison of the afrorementioned options: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Regarding GrapheneOS, there are a few things that distinguish it from the rest:

• the devs are really paranoid in the good way: it’s to receive security updates even before official pixel OS, a lot of OS level security hardening, a lot of features developed specifically to reduce attack surface (e.g. ability to completely disable USB, periodical reboots etc)
• it supports some exclusive privacy features (e.g. full per-app network kill-switch, contacts & storage scopes, location rerouting for play services etc) aimed to protect your data from crapware you might be forced to install
• it supports official play store and play services but in the most restricted way possible — they’ve developed a shim that allows to run it without any privileges and any permissions; you can also install it only under a completely separate user to fully separate it from your data
• in terms of being barebones, it is like this out of the box but you can install absolutely anything on it (unless it depends on “strict” play integrity protection)

I’m sorry, I just had to change that one letter.

Two birds with one stone? Smart!

“They’ve stolen our rightfully stolen data!”, said the spokesman.

They can just go fuck themselves.

It is.

Oh my god! That’s disgusting! How?

Even if you can’t have a GrapheneOS-powered phone, you still can have GrapheneOS camera: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.grapheneos.camera.play

It isn’t as feature-rich as OpenCamera or even native camera, but it does the job and it doesn’t spy on you.

You are absolutely right to question that! Let me check…

Ha, peasant! They’re not here to give you options, they’re here to make you watch more of the stupid garbage and click on more ads.