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Who are you hiding from? "Increasing privacy" means nothing without context.
My adversaries (well, when I'm not at a protest) are not likely to be tracking my phones location, and my phone is set up that no app or website can, so to me personally it's a large sacrifice for no benefit.
But for someone else, it could be good advice!
@comfy @thursday_j Indeed you need context, but let's limit the concept of "full privacy and security" to things that are in your control. E.g you might control the physical safety of your device but you can't control how many man-in-the-middle are between your phone and the rest of the internet. As a regular technology user my threat actors are big-tech and establishments.
@comfy @thursday_j GrapheneOS is the best flavour of Android that you can get with the downside that is limited to one single phone brand. But Android itself is far from being perfect. That's when Linux phones step in. Currently they are just in development stage and not really intended as daily drivers. But that changes with adoption.
As a quick introduction to the idea of Linux phones vs. Android ROMs, this post (updated about a year ago) gives an introduction from a security perspective. Depending on your adversary's capability, security can be an important dependency of privacy.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux-phones.html