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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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bloomingeek ◴[30 Mar 25 14:12 UTC] No.43524367[source]▶
Perhaps crazy question: is it a good idea to have two phones now? One for making calls only, with as many apps as possible removed. And another phone for email, web surfing, photos, etc...?

edit: Oops, I left out texting. Which phone for that?

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1. subscribed ◴[30 Mar 25 21:22 UTC] No.43527781[source]▶
If you don't need ANY apps on your main number, good dual-Sim feature phone (but be extremely picky, some are utter trash).

The for all the smart stuff, Pixel 6 with GrapheneOS. You can confine various "classes" off apps to dedicated profiles, so they'll never know of each other, and you get a vastly improved security (multiple releases in the month) and significantly improved privacy.

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2. bloomingeek ◴[31 Mar 25 01:32 UTC] No.43529736[source]▶
Excellent, thank you.