kevinfanch

I am using /e/ for quite some time now, and I'm really happy. Both articles seem like intentionally done by someone trying to scare people away from trying privacy-friendly and easy to use OS. About https://intangiblesheep.neocities.org/rants/eelo.html: - Most users would prefer Magic Earth even though being not open sourced, because AndOSM sucks, and Magic Earth is much close to Google Maps quality. - No one is forced to create an /e/ account, but if you decide to create one it is much less likely your data to be used, because /e/ doesn't sell ads like Google. - Lineage OS has no privacy enhancing features, while /e/ removed all calls to Google servers. This improves privacy a lot!

About second article which is not even published anymore. - Since when collecting money by crowdfunding makes a company bad? - It is a lie that /e/ doesn't do anything new. Check here: https://doc.e.foundation/faq#is-e-lineageos--microg - the ROM still falls back to google’s DNS : This have been fixed many months ago. - th/e/y don’t accept negative feedback : I have been in /e/ chat and there is so much negative feedback there and no one gets kicked out, I wonder what he did to get kicked out.

Seriously, this all looks like someone who doesn't like privacy trying to scare people away. Admit it no one is going to use a hard to install or hard to use OS. /e/ is the best option if you want your grandmother to have some privacy while still being able to use android apps.

MicroG is mentioned a lot as a part of /e/ check https://e.foundation/get-started/ Does /e/ = Lineage OS + MicroG?