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I don't really blame fairphone for this. They would probably have to make their own chips, if they wanted control over that. Almost nobody has money for that.
Naa that's not something with "snapdragon cpu and location services" it's something with snapdragon + the OS allowing it and most likely profiting from it. Fairphone guys have been petitioned multiples times to open their platform and/or collaborate with projects such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS so user can have private and secure phones but they don't care.
CalyxOS does support the Fairphone 4 however that's only due to the persistence and reverse engineering efforts of the CalyxOS project / community. If you decide to use it you won't have a secure bootloader anymore due to a bug in Fairphone's firmware that they choose not to fix. That's how "fair" the "Fairphone" really is.
Here is more relevant information for you from here:
Before you say this is the CPU's fault, it isn't, at least on its own. GrapheneOS also deals with this kind of stuff and has patches and options so you can block it.
After looking into it more, I don't think I would use Graphene OS even if it was supported on FP4, main dev seems like a lying man baby.
On the other hand, I didn't know Calyx OS has support for FP4, I might try it out.
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Thanks, that was interesting and eye opening read. Do you know if he is still working on graphene os or is he out? Because some users mentioned that he left.
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