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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[+] -11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Lol what? Yeah, ton of people in public use GrapheneOS.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How many people have you seen use GrapheneOS in public?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    See two everyday. Chatted up a 3 other pixel users last weekend, 2 were using GrapheneOS.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year 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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