/e/OS = #privacy by design, which makes it an exception on the mobile market.
That is what academic research found, comparing data sent by Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and /e/OS smartphones.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-reveals-scale-data-sharing-android-mobile.html
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf
@gael it seems they have tested lineageOS with gapps installed. That is not necessarily fair as it is not the standard configuration and you have to actively flash gapps afterwards.
I cannot observe any connection to google on my lineageos without gapps or am I wrong?
@picolo @gael /e/ had to change several other connections, such as Connectivity check. Lineage suggests installing GApps, and without that there is no way to install apps in the default install (backflips needed to get f-droid or Aurora). Also many proprietary apps will fail without GApps or microg with signature spoofing.
Wish they had tested a stock Lineage as well, but in the vast majority of cases, GApps is installed along with Lineage
