If your threat model includes Google as a trusted party, you’re an untrusted party to me.
It is sus that they privilege Google software in so many ways over other FOSS implementations. Saying “well Google can be trusted to be reasonably secure” is not an excuse for anyone who considers Google to be one of the primary parties they wish to keep their information away from.
I have a lot more trust in F-Droid because they take a principled stance against Google. Maybe their software is not as high quality as GOS devs would insist, but I can trust that they will not act against my interests, far more so than the GrapheneOS project.
If your threat model includes Google as a trusted party, you’re an untrusted party to me.
It is sus that they privilege Google software in so many ways over other FOSS implementations. Saying “well Google can be trusted to be reasonably secure” is not an excuse for anyone who considers Google to be one of the primary parties they wish to keep their information away from.
I have a lot more trust in F-Droid because they take a principled stance against Google. Maybe their software is not as high quality as GOS devs would insist, but I can trust that they will not act against my interests, far more so than the GrapheneOS project.