GrapheneOS does have modem isolation, and when it tells the modem to be off, then it’s really off.

I only use MS stuff on my work notebook. My wife and kid do use it, though.

Install over browser is a really low entry bar. Commercial would see about zero users.

Pixels are okay hardware-wise. Lifecycle is not much of a limit, since you’re relying on the upstream for patches anyway.

I block ads both on DNS blocklists and browser plugin level. Vanadium unfortunately doesn’t have uBlock origin so I’ll have to improvise something when I start using GrapheneOS on mobile – I don’t get out much.

With open source ROMs like LineageOS and GrapheneOS the admin is you.

This is why I run GrapheneOS and LineageOS.

Your phone is showing you ads?

Debian is a community distro. Ubuntu is downstream of it.

Young people are always ignorant, relatively. They haven’t been around long enough to learn much, after all. However, the quality of education has been empirically declining over many decades, and mobile devices are extemely efficient accelerants of brain rot.

This is why I don’t buy proprietary smartdevices.

You rely on professional fabricators of misinformation to tell you the truth about who is producing misinformation? Don’t fall for crude propaganda. When empires end they do some self-destructive things. It’s normal.