[panda_2134]

As a Chinese, I'm now staying away from every app by Chinese tech giants (at least on Android). After all, I don't wanna install backdoors and trojans to my daily device. It also reminded me of the Israli spyware[1] used for state-funded attacks, except that PDD is installed voluntarily by victims which is quite a sarcastic fact. But most people care nothing about privacy here (claiming "i've got nothing to hide!")

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/13/nso-group...

[rfoo]

Go out of your way to use stock Android on Pixel devices or GrapheneOS instead. At least if somebody decided to burn their exploit you got a chance to profit over it.

iPhone might also work but it's too hard to do forensics.

[panda_2134]

I'm a Pixel device user currently. Tried GrapheneOS but in the end I found that I can't live without google services...

[red-iron-pine]

Same. Had a Pixel 2 and tried to flash lineageOS on there but it didn't work.

Picked up a newer Pixel and it worked then, but found it was hard to live without the goog services. It was either that or trust some rando packages in F-Droid, so went back to the Play store

[gruez]

GrapheneOS supports sandboxed google play services.

[aprilnya]

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play