[atdt]

Which applications you use is almost irrelevant -- over the past several years, there has been a steady stream of "zero-click" exploits that allow an attacker to compromise phone with no user interaction. The remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered last year and this year in the modems used in Samsung devices require nothing more than knowing the victim's phone number.[1] And you don't need to be particularly important to be caught in a wide net, cast by criminals looking to build up a bot-net or harvest data from as many devices as possible.

[1]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...

[toastercat]

All of this makes me think I should just switch to a flip phone. It's exhausting having to constantly drop hundreds of dollars every 3 years just to stay safe.

I have a Pixel 5 that does everything I want. Google will stop supporting it within the next year. It doesn't make sense to me that this device already needs to be recycled. Yes, I know about custom ROMs, but even those end support for perfectly OK phones (GrapheneOS for example no longer supports Pixel 3a).

[osdril]

I completely agree. My phone lost official LineageOS support last year but it still works fine and I cannot justify throwing it away to replace with a new expensive device full of features I don't give a damn about. Probably I'm just stupid but I'm going to keep using it until it breaks.