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submitted 3 weeks ago by icegladiator@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lock@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

How many people have you seen use GrapheneOS in public?

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lock@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks 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

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Those three from last weekend were literal strangers lol.

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