[buro9]

I agree on not using iOS, because Firefox + Adblock + NoScript is incredible on Android.

but... Android sucks because the default permissions and business model on Android all veer towards advertising, and this is heavy on network and bandwidth as well as background processing across lots of apps... and that drains battery and performance.

I switched to GrapheneOS and just disable network on many things like Camera, etc... the Cloud AI features are not worth it... I also run web apps instead of installed apps for the vast majority of things, if an app doesn't require some hardware capability that only an app can provide then it's staying as a web app, m.uber.com works, most news websites work best as web apps with the JS disabled... I routinely get multi-day battery and stellar performance by just not running apps that are always trying to continuously exfiltrate data about me.

I've found only 2 things that don't work the same on GrapheneOS: Revolution banking just does not work at all - so I closed my account with them, and AMEX forces 2FA on every sign-in - which I can tolerate. Nothing else was impacted, everything else is an improvement in performance and battery.

[stavros]

Yeah, that's my experience as well, regarding apps being bloaty. Xiaomi phones also let me disable the network, which I do, and I've found one more thing that made a big difference: Setting the background process count to 1 or 2 from the developer options.

And yes, agreed, I can't live without mobile browser extensions. Tubular for YouTube is similarly indispensable.