#divestos — Public Fediverse posts

I guess it's impossible to remove Google from Android phones. I have disabled Google, but cannot delete it. And it re-enabled itself later. The only way out of this, I'm thinking, is an alternative operating system for the phone.

http://john1126.com/746

#phone #Google #Android #GrapheneOS #CopperheadOS #DivestOS #PureOS #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch

I guess it's impossible to remove Google from Android phones. I have disabled Google, but cannot delete it. And it re-enabled itself later. The only way out of this, I'm thinking, is an alternative operating system for the phone.

http://john1126.com/746

#phone #Google #Android #GrapheneOS #CopperheadOS #DivestOS #PureOS #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch

Anyways, fuck Google. I miss #DivestOS and am grateful that it lasted as long as it did.

Anyways, fuck Google. I miss #DivestOS and am grateful that it lasted as long as it did.

Oh, I didn't remember this fork of DivestOS exist.

Hopefully it will continue to exist for a while.

https://axpos.org/

#DivestOS #axpOS #VerifiedBootGang #AOSP #LineageOS #Android

Oh, I didn't remember this fork of DivestOS exist.

Hopefully it will continue to exist for a while.

https://axpos.org/

#DivestOS #axpOS #VerifiedBootGang #AOSP #LineageOS #Android

It's been almost a year since #DivestOS and its apps were discontinued.

I’ve since moved to @GrapheneOS, currently the only serious and secure Android OS (Pixel‑only, for now). As for the discontinued apps, here are some replacements worth noting:

• IronFox (Mull continuation)
• Cromite / Vanadium (Mulch alternatives)
• Hypatia (Hypatia continuation)
• Silence (Carrion alternative)

Thanks again @divested for a decade of more secure Android for many devices 🙏.

#DivestOS #GrapheneOS #Privacy #Security #FOSS

@Xtreix

The partnership between Braxman and iodeOS is concerning for sure. It does not make the project appear trustworthy at all.

But I feel you are mixing iodeOS and /e/OS which is not good practice.

Lets stay with /e/OS for a while as it is more obviously a degrated LineageOS.

Breaking source code licenses is really bad and fits into the image of /e/OS. But again, the stretch to iodeOS is not founded.

I know of DivestOS and it was a very good project. Basing off LineageOSes tooling is not bad, being their downstream is more problematic.

I thought of installing #DivestOS on my old Pixel, but even then GrapheneOS was newer.

Afaik iodeOS has improvements over LineageOS.

@celenity

Amazing! Already donated a large-for-me sum to this amazing effort! Thanks for taking up #DivestOS's legacy and improving it so much further than that!

https://celenity.dev/donate

#IronFox #Firefox #Privacy #Security #Android

Es sieht nicht gut aus für alternative und degoogled #Android OS. Nachdem #DivestOS Ende 2024 aufgehört hat zu existieren,wird nun auch #CalyxOS faktisch eingestellt. /e/OS ist securitymäßig nicht empfehlenswert. Bleiben nur noch #GrapheneOS und (mit Abstrichen) #IodeOS

Es sieht nicht gut aus für alternative und degoogled #Android OS. Nachdem #DivestOS Ende 2024 aufgehört hat zu existieren,wird nun auch #CalyxOS faktisch eingestellt. /e/OS ist securitymäßig nicht empfehlenswert. Bleiben nur noch #GrapheneOS und (mit Abstrichen) #IodeOS

This chart shows just how powerful GrapheneOS really is. It is the only option (according to the chart) that can nearly completely deGoogle (remove all connections to Google).

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

#deGoogle #GrapheneOS #DivestOS #CalyxOS #iodeOS #eos #LineageOS #Android #Google #FOSS

This chart shows just how powerful GrapheneOS really is. It is the only option (according to the chart) that can nearly completely deGoogle (remove all connections to Google).

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

#deGoogle #GrapheneOS #DivestOS #CalyxOS #iodeOS #eos #LineageOS #Android #Google #FOSS

Degoogled 📱 OS

EUROPEAN:
• #UbuntuTouch UK
• #Unplugged OS / LibertOS Grece
• #sailfishos by jollaOS Finland
• #liberux Spain
France
• #e/os/ - #Murena
• #iodé
Germany
• #PostmarketOS
• #VollaOS

ALLIES:
Canada
• #Graphene
• #CalyxOS
Korea
• #oniroproject

❌ 🚫❌
🇺🇸:
• #LineageOS
• #CopperheadOS
• #brax.me
• #AboveOs
• #FreePhone
• #OmniROM
• #SilentOS
• #paranoidandroid
• #DivestOS
• #AOSP

Degoogled 📱 OS

EUROPEAN:
• #UbuntuTouch UK
• #Unplugged OS LibertOS Grece
• #sailfishos by jollaOS Finland
• #liberux Spain
France
• #e/os/ #Murena
• #iodé
Germany
• #VollaOS
Nederland
• #PostmarketOS

ALLIES:
Canada
• #Graphene
• #CalyxOS
Korea
• #oniroproject

❌ 🚫❌
🇺🇸:
• #LineageOS
• #CopperheadOS
• #brax.me
• #AboveOs
• #FreePhone
• #OmniROM
• #SilentOS
• #paranoidandroid
• #DivestOS
• #AOSP

There was #DivestOS made for devices that were no longer "in support" but apparently that project got canceled at the start of the year.

My brain is just going crazy that the #USGov is gonna come after me by subpoenaing my data from google, even though I have long since turned all privacy-sharing settings off on my phone.

These older devices may not be the most powerful, but they still can be useful, especially for those without access to better phones.

There was #DivestOS made for devices that were no longer "in support" but apparently that project got canceled at the start of the year.

My brain is just going crazy that the #USGov is gonna come after me by subpoenaing my data from google, even though I have long since turned all privacy-sharing settings off on my phone.

These older devices may not be the most powerful, but they still can be useful, especially for those without access to better phones.

Now that #DivestOS is gone and #Carrion is dead, what are other #android users using to block spam calls? Strong preference for FOSS.

#grapheneos

Now that #DivestOS is gone and #Carrion is dead, what are other #android users using to block spam calls? Strong preference for FOSS.

#grapheneos

@visone

Yes, it's the continuation of the Mull browser from the sadly now defunct #DivestOS project.

@visone

Yes, it's the continuation of the Mull browser from the sadly now defunct #DivestOS project.

Holy crap. #DivestOS shutdown?! I wasn't using them directly because I had #grapheneos available on my pixel, but I used #Mull and Carion. What are the alternatives now? I see IronFox in Accrescent. Is it comparable?

#android #security

Holy crap. #DivestOS shutdown?! I wasn't using them directly because I had #grapheneos available on my pixel, but I used #Mull and Carion. What are the alternatives now? I see IronFox in Accrescent. Is it comparable?

#android #security

Any users of DivestOS here? Since it is discontinued what are you planning to switch to?
#divestos #android

Je suis repassé-e sous LineageOS puisque DivestOS c'est terminé. Ben je suis bien deg. 😬

#LineageOS #DivestOS

PSA if you use Mull (the privacy hardened Firefox/Fennec fork) on Android, or any of the other apps maintained by DivestOS: It is now dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115190317/https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

There is a fork called IronFox. Unfortunately it is not in the official F-Droid repository, and I don't think they have reproducible builds, either :(
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7

#Android #DivestOS #MullBrowser #Mull #IronFox #Firefox #Fennec

PSA if you use Mull (the privacy hardened Firefox/Fennec fork) on Android, or any of the other apps maintained by DivestOS: It is now dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115190317/https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

There is a fork called IronFox. Unfortunately it is not in the official F-Droid repository, and I don't think they have reproducible builds, either :(
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7

#Android #DivestOS #MullBrowser #Mull #IronFox #Firefox #Fennec

For a long time I've been using Mull browser, the privacy oriented Firefox fork, on my android devices.
But with it being discontinued, I have now switched to its successor: IronFox.
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

#IronFox #Mull #DivestOS

@bins @Julianoe
Pour info, #Mull a cessé d'être maintenu, avec le reste de #DivestOS.
https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

@bins @Julianoe
Pour info, #Mull a cessé d'être maintenu, avec le reste de #DivestOS.
https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

@daniel

Yes, Tavi ended the project

https://divestos.org/pages/news

All tool like #Hypatia and #Carrion will no longer receive database updates.

#DivestOS #Mulch #Mull #Fdroid

@daniel

Yes, Tavi ended the project

https://divestos.org/pages/news

All tool like #Hypatia and #Carrion will no longer receive database updates.

#DivestOS #Mulch #Mull #Fdroid

I hope some group will fork #DivestOS.

We're in 2025 and the only halfway acceptable OS for a popular device designed to handle private data is / was a single-maintainer project.

Society should get its priorities right ...

@crft and #DivestOS :-(

@crft and #DivestOS :-(

So is #DivestOS and their apps officially dead now? There doesn't seem to be any clear info on their website. Many people will probably unknowingly continue to use #Mulch or #Mull without any in-app notification. #Fdroid

So is #DivestOS and their apps officially dead now? There doesn't seem to be any clear info on their website. Many people will probably unknowingly continue to use #Mulch or #Mull without any in-app notification. #Fdroid

If like me you don't like to run Chrome on Android, meet #Ironfox[1], a great project that continues the legacy of the now defunct #Mull[2] by #DivestOS.

Ironfox enables features upstreamed by the #Tor uplift project and preferences from the `arkenfox-user.js` project.

Repo to be added to F-droid/NeoStore: https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo/index.html

[1]: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
[2]: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps#mull

#Ironfox #Firefox #Android #Mull #Tor #Arkenfox

@fdroidorg
Wow, so #MullBrowser will be discontinued as well (together with the whole #DivestOS project), that's bad news 😕 Everyone can switch to #FennecBrowser as an alternative FF build.
#Firefox

a project to watch: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
it's a #MullBrowser fork

#divestos #mull #fennec #firefox #android

Random thought, but since #DivestOS has shut down, what happens to #Hypatia antivirus? Did it have other contributors outside of that project? Will they keep developing it? All the "donate" links on its GitHub go to the Divest page, but I'm not sure how independent Hypatia is or isn't. I use #CalyxOS and Hypatia is included or endorsed by them, so I'm sort of curious.

#Security

I'm so so sad that #DivestOS is no longer being developed (and so so irritated with the whole Android ecosystem in general). Divest was the only OS still providing security updates to my kids' #OnePlus 3 phones. Divest also supported in-place major upgrades for me and my wife's Oneplus 6, and had additional hardening over #LineageOS (which is what it's forked from). All of the other popular hardened versions of Android (CalyxOS, GrapheneOS) are focused on Pixels, which have crap hardware.

switching from #DivestOS to #LineageOS…

Una #noticia triste. #DivestOS ha llegado a su fin, probablemente por no recibir suficientes donaciones ni colaboradores (lo llevaba una sola persona).
De todos estos proyectos, su desarrollador era la persona que me parecía más razonable y transparente de todas. Una verdadera lástima.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/12/secure-mobile-operating-system-divestos-ends-after-a-decade-of-development/

#Android #privacidad #seguridad #AndroidROM #AOSP

Really sad to see #Divested shut down #DivestOS and with it the brilliant hardened #Mull browser. 😢

https://divestos.org/pages/news#end