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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

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It does, but a lot of people but the pixels specifically to put graphene on it because graphene they're compatible and graphene offers better privacy and security. What I'm getting here is drug dealers are using graphene to dodge digital narcs and it's becoming common enough that the Venn diagram skews heavily to drug dealing.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, I'd say 250k is a lot for a 3rd party phone OS.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

The experience speaks for itself. I dont know of anyone who's ever willingly gone back to stock android either.