I’m a journalist looking to switch to Graphene for security purposes when i’m traveling but a fair share of my work is on social media (using alterego) and i need to be able to post and chat. Is it even possible on Graphene (via browser or specific app) ? Really new to this, it might defy the purpose.

  • vas@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Adding to the already existing comment. In short, most stuff simply works. Only banks don’t work (80% of them in the Netherlands) due to many of them requiring google’s SafetyNet.

    I’ve decided to visit the project for you BTW, but I couldn’t find their app. Do they have any? If it’s just in a browser, then of course it’s going to work.

    If you have something else in mind that is an app, you can google/duckduckgo for e.g. “grapheneos appname”. No results but the app is relatively popular? Then it’s likely working flawlessly, hence nobody’s writing about it.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Yes, you can use pretty much all the same applications available on a standard Android device. I’d recommend you check out this discussion where pretty much this exact question is posed. You might also benefit from checking which apps you want to run specifically on this site.

    I’ve been on GrapheneOS for years now and everything just works except for Google Pay. I’m no longer on major social media anymore, but from what I’ve gathered, standard apps like Instagram, Facebook, etc. do work. It doesn’t necessarily defeat the purpose to use these apps btw. GrapheneOS is focused on security, not privacy. That said, it is, imho, far easier to improve privacy using GrapheneOS when compared to stock Android.

    Do more research, but I’d personally recommend GrapheneOS over any other mobile OS. It’s quite good.

    • alcibiades@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 days ago

      Thanks for both your answer, I’ll check the apps available and best practices. On what you said about Security over privacy, i might have misunderstood something.

      One of my main concern is localization and in device data access by Social media apps (more extensively google) LinkedIn just got caught spying on the downloaded app on users devices each time they log in.

      Would using Graphene OS prevent this kind of action ? Or limiting access on any device would do the work ?

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 days ago

        GraphenOS gives you a bit more control over what apps can access (storage scopes and contact scopes), and the bullet proof way would be to use separate user profiles on the phone to isolate apps