Curiously enough, for years and years the main criticism of GrapheneOS is that it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Finally, they announce they will work with another provider, Motorola. Some people proceed to simply forecast enshitification, spyware, and ads. I don’t think this is sane at all.

makes sense that they’d remove it from their forums if it has nothing to do with graphene. not a single point relevant to the OS

brand new account that registered just to share this link? that’s not sus at all.

Yes Motorola and everyone else, why do you think most companies have their own flavour of ui? But it makes me wonder if they’re gonna try to pack some hardware level way to spy on users

We’re really comparing a burner to whatever Graphene is developing with Moto? Also, points deducted for the “owned by China bad” talking point.

R u kidding me

This is true, Motorola devices send really weird info to motpaks.com and motpks.com. Can’t uninstall the PAKS application. That’s why I use my LineageOS Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s.

Edit: some stuff from the app:

adb shell dumpsys package com.motorola.paks | grep permission
    declared permissions:
    requested permissions:
      android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE
      com.motorola.permission.ACCESS_PRODUCT_PERSIST
      android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE
      android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
      android.permission.ACCESS_KEYGUARD_SECURE_STORAGE
      android.permission.DEVICE_POWER
      android.permission.MANAGE_USERS
      android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE
      android.permission.OEM_UNLOCK_STATE
      com.motorola.actions.provider.permission.READ_MODES
      com.motorola.actions.provider.permission.WRITE_MODES
      com.motorola.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
      com.motorola.permission.PAKS_BIND_PERMISSION
      android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES
      android.permission.DELETE_PACKAGES
      android.permission.MANAGE_DEVICE_ADMINS
      android.permission.MANAGE_PROFILE_AND_DEVICE_OWNERS
      android.permission.START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND
      android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
      android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
      android.permission.INTERNET
      android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
      android.permission.MANAGE_NETWORK_POLICY
      android.permission.MANAGE_ROLE_HOLDERS
    install permissions:
      com.motorola.permission.PAKS_BIND_PERMISSION: granted=true
      com.motorola.actions.provider.permission.READ_MODES: granted=true
      android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES: granted=true
      android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE: granted=true
      android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: granted=true
      com.motorola.actions.provider.permission.WRITE_MODES: granted=true
      android.permission.MANAGE_ROLE_HOLDERS: granted=true
      android.permission.DEVICE_POWER: granted=true
      android.permission.MANAGE_PROFILE_AND_DEVICE_OWNERS: granted=true
      android.permission.INTERNET: granted=true
      android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE: granted=true
      android.permission.ACCESS_KEYGUARD_SECURE_STORAGE: granted=true
      android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE: granted=true
      android.permission.MANAGE_USERS: granted=true
      android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: granted=true
      android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS: granted=true
      android.permission.OEM_UNLOCK_STATE: granted=true
      android.permission.MANAGE_DEVICE_ADMINS: granted=true
      com.motorola.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS: granted=true
      android.permission.MANAGE_NETWORK_POLICY: granted=true
      android.permission.START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND: granted=true
      android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES: granted=true
      android.permission.DELETE_PACKAGES: granted=true
      runtime permissions:

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.motorola.paks

Exception occurred while executing 'disable-user':
java.lang.SecurityException: Cannot disable a protected package: com.motorola.paks
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.setEnabledSettings(PackageManagerService.java:4308)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.-$$Nest$msetEnabledSettings(PackageManagerService.java:0)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$IPackageManagerImpl.setApplicationEnabledSetting(PackageManagerService.java:6340)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.runSetEnabledSetting(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:2489)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.onCommand(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:273)
	at com.android.modules.utils.BasicShellCommandHandler.exec(BasicShellCommandHandler.java:97)
	at android.os.ShellCommand.exec(ShellCommand.java:38)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$IPackageManagerImpl.onShellCommand(PackageManagerService.java:6992)
	at android.os.Binder.shellCommand(Binder.java:1068)
	at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:888)
	at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub.onTransact(IPackageManager.java:4374)
	at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$IPackageManagerImpl.onTransact(PackageManagerService.java:6976)
	at android.os.Binder.execTransactInternal(Binder.java:1344)
	at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:1275)

The DNS calls:

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