A lot of the security features are things found in regular AOSP. Sure it does have some cool features but I think the community overhypes it quite a bit.
The biggest “snake oil” though is the sandboxed Google play services. Google services depend on Google to work and require your data to function. Privacy wise I haven’t seen anything explaining how Graphene magically makes it private. If they did somehow make it work offline they would likely get sued by Google for violating Google terms of service since Google play is proprietary. MicroG attempts to solve these issues but the main dev of Graphene OS harassed the MicroG team instead of working with them. That is a common thing in Graphene. The devs like to be the center of attention so they don’t work with anyone else in the community.
Graphene OS is suck a joke and it sucks that we seem to be stuck with it.
For me personally I would never trust Graphene OS. It has way to much snake oil and is tied to a crazy narcissistic dev who is mentally unstable.
For now Lineage OS with MicroG will have to do but it isn’t ideal.
Care to elaborate on the snake oil?
A lot of the security features are things found in regular AOSP. Sure it does have some cool features but I think the community overhypes it quite a bit.
The biggest “snake oil” though is the sandboxed Google play services. Google services depend on Google to work and require your data to function. Privacy wise I haven’t seen anything explaining how Graphene magically makes it private. If they did somehow make it work offline they would likely get sued by Google for violating Google terms of service since Google play is proprietary. MicroG attempts to solve these issues but the main dev of Graphene OS harassed the MicroG team instead of working with them. That is a common thing in Graphene. The devs like to be the center of attention so they don’t work with anyone else in the community.