Tldr after realizing your a lineage os stan

its always lineageos users that can’t handle the fact their OS isnt very private.

Here is some fun reading for you

This is just not true for a multitude of reasons.

The obvious being that most other custom ROMs are not actually degoogled (ie proprietary blobs, still communicating with google) and/or they try to do it in ways that provide no privacy benefit such as replacing google with MicroG which has the exact same issues (ie privelged access to your phone).

The majority of these custom ROMs break any semblence of their security model (rooting, not locking the bootloader etc) to bring these privacy measures, which makes them almost moot in and of itself.

Also purely focusing on removing yourself from Google (especially while ignoring all of AOSP, and to an extent Android in general, is Google centric) when there are tons of other large data gatherers (many of them with far less recognizable brands) that your probably ignoring is useless.

People have been saying this for 5 days now lol

RD already having to ban a bunch of idiots who got refunds, went to torbox which actually doesn’t work, and now are trying to come back.

Wonder how long it will take all these rights groups, trying to weaponize badness enumeration, to realize what a horribly ineffective strategy it is.

In general DNS poisoning is not a very effective measure as these companies point out in the article.

There are simpler ways to block access, they noted, pointing out that the measures would not be effective because users could use VPNs or other DNS resolvers to bypass the blocks.

If it isn’t divestos or grapheneos the privacy gains over stock are going to be minimal compared to the comparability issues you will face.

RD still works and there are multiple other debrids out there if you prefer stremio.

If you are fine just deleting stuff after watching instead of hoarding you can save in storage and management costs if you go the self hosted route. Also its a lot cheaper to host if your willing to watch at say 1080p then 4k.