Depends on how you mean. The code isn’t open source, but you can turn off notifications, prevent apps from accessing the camera, turn off EXIF, location data, etc.
Does all your biometric DNA and everything get slurped up by Apple and processed into a secret file for the NSA where they use robots to steal our luggage? Yeah maybe. I mean, no one’s proven that yet, despite it being almost 20 years. But I get to play my little piratd mp3s, stiff Google, and don’t have to unlock a fucking custom rom to get that level of control.
It’s not perfect. It’s just better. Or, you can stick with a dumb phone and pen & paper like a sane rational person.
Depends on how you mean. The code isn’t open source, but you can turn off notifications, prevent apps from accessing the camera, turn off EXIF, location data, etc.
Does all your biometric DNA and everything get slurped up by Apple and processed into a secret file for the NSA where they use robots to steal our luggage? Yeah maybe. I mean, no one’s proven that yet, despite it being almost 20 years. But I get to play my little piratd mp3s, stiff Google, and don’t have to unlock a fucking custom rom to get that level of control.
It’s not perfect. It’s just better. Or, you can stick with a dumb phone and pen & paper like a sane rational person.
All things you can do on stock Android as well.