>You can exclusively use FOSS software and escape the botnet
FOSS is being invaded by leftists. In five years your FOSS will require you to tick a box declaring that trannies are real women and everything you type will be uploaded and scanned for wrongthink.
Phone vendors ship their own Android firmware, which can include custom visuals, some apps, update mechanisms and who knows what else (probably drivers to make the device work). LineageOS is independent Android firmware not controlled by any vendor. The advantage I can see is dealing with poor updates from vendor or when vendor ships bloatware.
Maybe you shouldnt make a thread about a subject you know literally nothing about you fucking waste of oxygen
This is now a SailfishOS thread
Wow you're retarded
1. Android is open source
2. Lineage is that open source code compiled with a few tweeks
3. Google apps are botnet
4. If you dont install google apps you dont get botnet
Any more questions?
What messaging app?
Stock SMS and Telegram. I'm using the substratum theme "Focus" if anyone else was curious
Fuck off mauro
>but it doesn't remove the botnet
So how else to remove the botnet?
I heard there is this microg project to replace gapps. How does it work and do you recommend it?
With Android custom roms you can remove every component tied to Google services, but every mobile phone is inherently a botnet because it is tied to the cellular network and can be used to localize a person. If you only care about Google is fine, but don't expect complete privacy because it's not possible