GrapheneOS

@informapirata @informatica It would not be the end of F-Droid, it would only require them to stop incorrectly using package names (application ids) not belonging to them. F-Droid doing that already causes issues and we’ve reported it as an issue many times for several years. Simply doing domain-based verification without ID verification similar to Let’s Encrypt would have caused problems for them too unless developers authorized the usage explicitly.

See our post at https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26966-f-droids-delevoper-statements-about-googles-registration/3.

@shiva @informatica @informapirata We don’t think these are good recommendations for users who care about privacy and security. There’s a lot more to privacy than simply avoiding Google apps/services.

We recommend https://eylenburg.github.io/android/_comparison.htm for a high quality comparison between Android-based operating systems. The other OSes listed there do not keep up with privacy/security patches which is the bare minimum. CalyxOS updates have also recently been discontinued as a whole (https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/).