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        hekathegreat
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        Hi,

        I have a question about UT and its privacy. I have been using degoogled phone (samsung S9 with /e/os) about a year now and I have been very satisfied with it.

        How the UT works? Is it android? Is it full linux? For example, are these kind of issues same with UT? Android has always some kind of connect to google and many third party trackers in apps.

        So how UT and its apps work? Like browser or messaging apps? Do they have trackers or something like that? Or is it fully free of this data collection?

        I appreciate your answers, hopefully this lights up conversation here.

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          Keneda @hekathegreat
          last edited by Keneda

          @hekathegreat
          Yes UT is a "full" GNU/Linux on the OS part, but a secure mobile oriented one, so you can't install snap ou deb packages in its default state.

          On android phones, it runs on some android parts, most of them are vendor drivers, and it needs to use vendor Linux custom kernel to make phone work properly, but nothing from what you do on UT is shared with google (unless you want to, i.e. by using a google account) or any other entity.

          Default installed apps have nothing to do with google, contact, messaging, phoning apps, and all the others are from ubports and opensourced and of course ubports doesn't collect your personnal data.

          On openstore (wich only require account if you want to review apps) it's the same, only specific apps that has to do with google or youtube account can share some data with google.

          Apps on UT are strictly confined, except core apps and some other, reviewed by ubports team.

          Search "halium" and HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to better understand how UT works on android native phones.

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            Idcrafter @Keneda
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            @keneda i would only see A-GPS as a privacy threat, but google can't do much with it if the phone is in other ways unidentifiable

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              arubislander @Idcrafter
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              @idcrafter and even that is moot because A-GPS is not available on Ubuntu Touch ..

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                domubpkm
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                I'm not commenting on whether it's real or not (not the skills for) but only drawing attention to the supposed issue (security flaw) I saw that day :
                https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/2057 . See @dobey answer at the end which is rather reassuring.

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