TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

  • lock@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    Have you ever seen someone in public use GrapheneOS? Of course they would suspect them if the drug dealers they caught all use the same niche custom operating system.

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      58 minutes ago

      How often are you staring at the screen of strangers’ phones to the point you can determine what operating system they are using? That’s really fuckin creepy, dude.

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        2 hours ago

        How many people have you seen use GrapheneOS in public?

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            1 hour ago

            Not people you know, a random civilian. Highly doubt that you have walked past a random civilian who uses GrapheneOS. It just makes you stand out way more and is extremely rare to find a random person using GrapheneOS

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              46 minutes ago

              I’m not looking at strangers’ phone screens close enough to figure out if they’re using GOS but I’ve noticed strangers using GOS a fair few times. Likely would a lot more if I were looking for it but I’m not trying to read everyone’s phone screens…

              It’s a fairly common OS and it’s fairly widely acknowledged that GOS is a big driver for Pixel sales.

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              49 minutes ago

              I use it whenever I travel. I just say it’s lightweight and my phone runs better on it