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by gary17the 1770 days ago
There's also GrapheneOS, which excludes Google APIs completely and is additionally hardened down to its memory allocation implementation, at the cost of performance and app compatibility[1].

[1] "GrapheneOS vs CalyxOS ULTIMATE COMPARISON (Battery & Speed Ft. Stock Android & iPhone)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iS4leau088

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> which excludes Google APIs completely

lineageos and calyxos should as well, unless you opt-in. I guess they would still use the google captive portal detection? Is that what you're referring to?

> and is additionally hardened down to its memory allocation implementation

That's really interesting. Do you use GrapheneOS? Is it easy to lock the bootloader on Pixel devices?