A study of data collection by Android devices

As it happens, I agree with his approach (for now). I have been using /e/OS for around 18 months now. I took it up after years of Jolla and LineageOS use. You are absolutely correct that there are safer options. However, I don't want to be safe alone :) I want my friends and family also have an opportunity to have more privacy and security than they currently have. That requires big enough actor (which E foundation is not ... yet) that can provide a usable enough product that they can use. So it's a trade off at this point. Maybe later when it has single digit market share in Europe ...;P

E seems to have the required staying power. More than a few developers, designer(s?), marketers, community people, ... IIRC it already has had some funding from different European development programs. With EU having issues with Google, Facebook, TikTok, Huawei, ... I assume that that push for more pro-privacy and made-in-Europe solutions increases. E just needs to be big and credible enough to benefit from that.

My only remaining concern with them is about their app store. I hope somebody does the research on it (and other independent app stores) and verifies their claims there too. And just maybe we can finally get the trustworthy app store that doesn't require user identification for downloading and using free-as-in-beer apps.