Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones:

Even when minimally configured and the handset is idle, with the notable exception of e/OS, these vendor-customized Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and to third parties such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Facebook that have pre-installed system apps. There is no opt-out from this data collection.

I happen to be using /e/ OS for the last ~2 years on all my #android phones and quite pleased to read it.

@kravietz wait, LineageOS comes preinstalled with Google apps????????
@kravietz LINEAGEOS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO COME WITH GAPPS?????? WHAT IMAGES DID THEY INSTALL???????
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@xerz @kravietz they're pretty explicit about it:

(v) Google Pixel 2/Android 10 (LineageOS build 17.1-20210316, opengapps 10.0-nano-20210314

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