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I never took Sun Knudsen seriously. He solidified my judgement with this video. I remember joepie also has one article on the same topic.
VPNs have purposes of pseudonymity from ISP and script kiddies, and geoblock bypassing. Anyone who cannot figure this out while calling themselves a privacy advocate or guru is a fraud. Any Brave shill "privacy tuber" is also same for me, like Techlore and DistroTube. GrapheneOS community overwhelmingly recommends and shills Brave and Chromium browsers and calls Firefox bad, so that is also a red flag for me, telling they know shit about privacy and security.
I never take most of them seriously, since I myself create guides and practice a strong threat model for years upon years. Learning about topics and working through recommendations yourself is the best bet, but if that is hard, people like me are few and far in between, with no incentive to gain, and will not give dogshit advice. It sounds like self-promotion, but I think I have made myself clear enough to be called paranoid in some circles by phonies. I have used Tor, I2P, Freenet and various darknets for a decade, and have been in this "trade" for a good while without a name.
I agree about most of that, but I am curious what is wrong with graphene os. I use it but if there is a reason not to I would like to know what you recommend.
GrapheneOS is pure snake oil with a disgusting sole developer that believes in pushing corporate Big Tech propaganda, harassing and witch hunting any critics, having a little social media army with sockpuppets to do this, abuses mentally challenged by hiding behind “autism” label (Louis Rossmann has a nice video), falsely claims he was swatted without giving evidence or coverage in local Canadian media and blames everyone from redditors to community mods to YouTubers and so on.
I covered this disease for about 5 years, and it emanates from the same sewer that “security” clowns like Brad Spengler and madaidan do in Linux community. All they do is either push their bullshit solutions or push corporate Big Tech propaganda and hate any FOSS project they think will not worship them.
You can read my documentation of this lore here.
https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/
https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/13teoo9/grapheneos_corporate_foss_loving_witch_hunting/
Most of the security measures in Graphene are something you can take with lots of Android devices, and is nothing exclusive to Pixel/Graphene fairy tales. Micay and his minions just love selling that combo as the only solution, and I frankly hate it as it has no basis in reality.
Please read the paper by Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix and C, on why we should be able to trust the developer and NOT the code. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
What would you recommend I use instead?
CalyxOS or LineageOS