[Dr. Franklin]

Get a Linux phone and keep Google from spying on you. The amount of tracking these phones do is quite extraordinary.

[Celtic Conservative]

Two words: “Faraday bag”.

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[butterdezillion]

Where does one find a Linux phone? My son’s been wanting one forever.

[bankwalker]

Where do I get a Linux phone?

[V_TWIN]

Funny you should mention that.

Lately I’ve been watching videos of this guy that demonstrates how to turn off settings on android and Apple phones that spy on us.

By camera, microphone and even text and email......so far I think I’m up to around 8 settings I’ve turned off so far and he has more videos I haven’t gotten to yet.

The invasion of privacy embedded into cell phones really is criminal.

[Dr. Sivana]

Get a Linux phone and keep Google from spying on you.

I got a Linux Pine phone a couple of years ago. I wanted it to work, I really did. It is slow, the removable battery life was poor (I would have sprung for new batteries, and swapped as necessary), and the screen was not at all scratch resistant. I would have put up with all of that, but I couldn't get a SIM that would work with it. The Linux phone user groups were of little help. It has been sitting in my closet for almost two years after I gave up. Seriously, I will sell it for $50 in lightly used condition (no promises on the battery!) to anyone who wants a slow Linux computer in his pocket. FreepMail me!

[TexasGator]

“
Get a Linux phone”

Not ready for prime time

https://medium.com/@camden.o.b/the-ultimate-linux-phone-guide-28d0cce9929

[fuzzylogic]

? “Linux” is not defined outside of the Linux Kernel, the filesystem can have whatever you want....which is what Android is. Android is Linux (kernel) based.

If somebody is referring to “Ubuntu Linux” or “Red Hat Linux”, fine, except I’m not aware of any phone maker that uses such.

[Paal Gulli]

"Get a Linux phone and keep Google from spying on you...."

I hate to break the news to you but Android IS Linux.

But there are Android ROMS that are G**gle-free. LineageOS is the oldest but AFAIK no one sells phones with the LineageOS ROM. You have to flash it yourself, and that requires compatible hardware and a fairly high degree of techno-literacy.

CalyxOS takes an even more strict approach with there "privacy-focused" ROM than LineageOS, and there is at least one company that sells phones pre-installed with it (privacy phone shop dot com). Best of all, they're using Pixel phones but they've ripped out the G**gle ROM and replaced it with CalyxOS.

There are other privacy-focused, non-G**gle ROMs but I don't know of a source that sells phones using them complete with the factory warranty.

I'm counting maybe half a dozen companies that sell phones preinstalled with non-Android Linux but the phones they're based on IMHO come nowhere near a Pixel.