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by timonovici 2783 days ago
Try Lineage on a phone with F-Droid as your app repo: much more trustable - though not completely, plenty of blobs floating around, the modem OS, and is safe to assume there are non-public bugs out there. Also, none of the crappy preinstalled apps, no google spyware, no touchwizz madness - just a clean, vannila Andoid experience, just as the original developers intended.
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I have gotten Lineage going on a couple of older phones for friends, I am skeptical that it and F-droid are inherently much more safe than stock + the Play Store - except that they're less tempting targets for exploitation. Which I suppose is worth something, still.