If you use a Google service on a locked down Google device, what magic fix are you hoping for? There are limits. If you’re unwilling to make any meaningful change, then unfortunately you’re out of luck and either need to suck it up and watch the ads, or pay Google for an ad-free experience. Or you can leave their ecosystem and be free.

Its not like those are mutually exclusive. Long term vs short term fix.

Something more insightful than the obvious solution screaming in your face?

Their way out is using an external device.

People curse. Get over it. Just goes to show that you don’t have anything to say about the actual point of their comment when you clutch pearls like that.

Fucking yikes.

More like, “Why did you lock your doors, are you diddling kids?”

Because its fucking pathetic. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

FUD?

GrapheneOS users are not significantly increasing the demand for Google hardware.

Nope. I just upgraded my phone not too long ago, and apart from it being a (secondhand) Pixel, Google never entered the process.

Yeah, but that would require talking to people. Fuck that.

That’s a dumb take. IPhone are incredibly popular. Painting every iPhone user as shallow is completely baseless.

Google does NOT need your phone number on GrapheneOS. I’m on Graphene and Google doesn’t have shit.

What’s the point of a hardware switch if it only disables it via software? GrapheneOS has a software switch too.

If my phone had an accessible hardware switch I would absolutely be using it 100% of the time I wasn’t actively on my phone.

Running outdated software can open security vulnerabilities however.

To add to what others are saying, there’s been hard evidence of apps doing this, notably Meta apps.

I’m aware, but if you have the free space, why waste the bandwidth?

But then you need to stream it every time, which is more frequently.