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Not really. Stock OSes are really bad in terms of privacy, maybe with a few exceptions - I wouldn't be able to trust them with any personal info. Just like Windows. So a custom one is a must.

Eight years, minus the few years you'd have to wait until the phone is close to affordable. And updates via LineageOS is still way better than just using a phone with no updates when it hits EOL like you normally would.

What about Simplex? About equally easy to host and doesn't even give an option to not encrypt. I use both.

I wonder how they'd detect their usage. Signal is understandable, it has central servers (although I thought they were blocked and thus their usage wouldn't be detectable under a good VPN anyway). But Matrix? Are they looking for connections to known public servers? Or the usage of the protocol itself stands out so that even selfhosted servers would stand out?

If I were in such a situation, I'd start to hide traffic to anything they might dislike anyway.

At least for a large portion of such people, the reply might be "Well, you installed an app for a random coffeeshop you go to - so why not install one for a more important purpose?"

$25 is already a crazy enough sum for a phone bill, what you're talking about is outrageous. Also, I've heard that such devices are often carrier-locked, and that carrier-locked devices often also have locked bootloaders.

I bought a Pixel because of how universal its support is with custom OSes. What features are broken there?

Ah, so not that significant and fixable? GOS has an assortment of calls home as well (to their own servers at least, but still a third party).

Is it an expensive contract? I doubt my $3/mo plan would ever have perks like this lol. Especially given that Pixels here are only sold unofficially.

Yes, I know about them extending it. For me, for example, that means four years of official support, which is much less than a usual lifespan of my phone.

What privacy issues are you talking about?

Graphene has a relatively short support, especially given that the phones for it are completwly unaffordable new so it's effectively shorter than advertised. I am now spoiled by using a device that is not EOL so I think I will be switching when GOS' support ends.

I only recently learned that English word for "Passport" refers to the document needed for travelling - and yeah, ours also have a plastic card like this. But weirdly, the actual internal ID which is used a lot more just has a laminated paper page in this place.

Plus, people are fighting detection too. Where "normal" VPN protocols are recognized and blocked, like China, people are trying to make them indistinguishable from normal HTTPS traffic.

I am very much against digitizing currency as well. Not every place has connectivity, financial apps might have a problem running on custom ROMs like Graphene (which would probably be getting worse now), and most importantly - having ALL your transactions surveilled and agregated makes one uneasy.

Yeah. The fact that our my country's primary ID document is an easily-damageable paper booklet is very annoying, especially given the fact that in 99% of cases, only one page - the laminated one with the name and photo - is needed! That page could easily be a plastic card.

"Drop" in my language is a word for "a person you KYC everything shady on" - kinda like a "money mule" in English, but way broader. So...

I am looking into obfuscation methods used in China now, like v2ray/VLESS/XRay. Maybe this would be the direction you'd want to go. I'd start with a good comparison article.

That's actually a perk. Means the decryption key is not uploaded to telegram servers.

You could make encryption work between multiple ends without the server having to share the keys if each device has its own key - like in Matrix, XMPP, etc. And given that Telegram can't do that, the restriction in question is still very arbitrary - in a one-to-one conversation, they just don't allow you to make your end the desktop and not the phone.

Also yes, here selling drugs over Telegram is a very big thing too and given how hard it is to use Telegram anonymously and safely - it is indeed monumentally stupid.