127 comments so far with no mention of the partial solution described at the bottom of the article:
> take all the Play stuff and move it out of its tight integration with the low level system and into userland, where it can be sandboxed. That gives you back granular control over all the resources Play Services wants to use, and what data it and the app which use it want to send back. That's the approach GrapheneOS takes, a Pixel-only open source Android distro – OK, ROM – that by many reports hits the sweet spot of maximum control over security with minimal impact on the daily Android experience.
> Teamed with a second-hand last-but-one generation Pixel, GrapheneOS raises the seemingly oxymoronic possibility that the most data-tight and user-configurable mobile platform costs less than $200, has negligible environmental impact, and is powered by the data ogre Google itself.
> It doesn't matter how badly the FBI, NSA, GCHQ or the dictatorships behave, they can't have your data if you never send it. You'll still have to take care of what you do online and how you do it, but at least you can build that castle on a halfway decent rock.
> take all the Play stuff and move it out of its tight integration with the low level system and into userland, where it can be sandboxed. That gives you back granular control over all the resources Play Services wants to use, and what data it and the app which use it want to send back. That's the approach GrapheneOS takes, a Pixel-only open source Android distro – OK, ROM – that by many reports hits the sweet spot of maximum control over security with minimal impact on the daily Android experience.
> Teamed with a second-hand last-but-one generation Pixel, GrapheneOS raises the seemingly oxymoronic possibility that the most data-tight and user-configurable mobile platform costs less than $200, has negligible environmental impact, and is powered by the data ogre Google itself.
> It doesn't matter how badly the FBI, NSA, GCHQ or the dictatorships behave, they can't have your data if you never send it. You'll still have to take care of what you do online and how you do it, but at least you can build that castle on a halfway decent rock.