I can confirm this is all true. I read about it on Fox and MSNBC. You know it must be true when they both agree!

That may have been true a few years ago but not anymore. Google gets lots of hate on Lemmy, Reddit, and various other tech sites.

https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/c/degoogle

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/

I’m glad it works for you but I don’t think it reliably works for a lot of Graphene users:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-do-i-activate-rcs-on-grapheneos/23546/5

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1353-using-rcs-with-google-messages-on-grapheneos/254

For a few years, even the FBI officially recommended that everyone should use an adblocker. They recently removed that PSA from their website, I believe with the new administration:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-blocker-to-dodge-scammers

Thanks for these, especially the “we’re not going anywhere” link. I was hesitant to switch because I was worried about future support on my Pixel 7. Here’s the full quote for anyone that didn’t check the above link:

Many companies and individuals are trying to mislead people about the future of GrapheneOS to promote their insecure products and services. GrapheneOS is not going anywhere. We’ve made it clear we’re shipping Android 16 soon and that the supported devices will remain supported.