Hmm… so what does it change? Before you could have health insurance without using your ID?

It would be hilarious if a German newspaper were to publish the same “criminals like this OS and police hate it” clickbait article.

Sorry again about referencing you as a fake acc, there is a screenshot I’m hunting now about a call to users to create disposable accs to respond to social media posts that will give a better context for my assumption, but I removed the whole content of that previous post anyway.

Sorry, as the acc had no previous interaction with anything but that post I assumed it was a disposable acc. The screenshot of that comment is in the very same article, but you can also check it here https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1991610031478042948#m (nitter frontend link)

Very documented.

edit: removing the rest of the message because it was a misunderstanding.

What’s your threat model to need a quick online image caption to be opensource?

if it’s not the same guy running the acc then my bad.

I think everyone would love some evidence here, but so far it was one journalist from one newspaper talking to one cop that said criminals are using GrapheneOS because it destroys evidence. Afaik Daniel didn’t post any notification, inquiry or general communication he received from any government official or agency…

I don’t think that one cop that one journalist interviewed is a representative of a G7 country, I actually believe he is representing the whole NATO! Run Daniel! Run!

What’s the “French smear campaign”? Where do I get paid to participate?
So far all I’ve seen is a single newspaper making an article about how criminals like GrapheneOS, a clickbait even Linus used on his channel - you know what, I suspect Linus is being financed by the French as well!

As for why: Those videos show how the “drama and accusations” work. The Boy Who Called Wolf.
If France is becoming hostile to privacy though, great that he is moving out, GrapheneOS is still by far the best mobile project for privacy. It would probably benefit greatly if its main dev didn’t spend so much time on social media.

Again, those videos aren’t about this French stuff, but about him claiming every other Android project is after him and that everyone who asks too much about his project is after him. The first video is from 2021 and the other from 2023. No relation to him claiming the French government is after him now.

None of the content above has anything to do with France - but he did take the opportunity to claim two other projects based on France are persecuting him as well, so he kinda has a pattern. As I commented to some other user in the other post, it’s The Boy Who Cried Wolf problem - those two videos are full of documentation of his modus operandi.

So yeah, it seems like he accuses everyone of persecuting and harassing him, but in those videos there are several examples of what he considers persecuting and harassing. Both channels were highly supportive of the project and actively promoted it, but because they would also promote other projects and do benchmark tests, they were “spreading misinformation”, “being biased”, “campaigning against him” and so on. And in the second video he accused the guy of campaigning against him just for saying “This is informative, and unfortunate” about the first video lol. So him being a “victim” is just his lack of proper medication, because anyone who asked him about such attacks, if he had prints or so, was also accused of attacking him lol

https://youtu.be/Dx7CZ-2Bajg
https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0

Undoubtly GrapheneOS is the best project out there, so yeah, this is unfortunate.

The guy being paranoid asshole is passable, what I thought a really shit move is calling the community to create alt accs to harass people from other projects and saying he will ban anyone that complains. The Rossmann video is quite shocking, you see the dev’s complete disassociation with reality… yeah the code is open, but how many people outside the project are really auditing it? Even people inside the project, are they auditing each others’ work? If the guy doesn’t get treatment, how long until he decides his own userbase is after him?

CoyoteFacts posted those videos above https://youtu.be/Dx7CZ-2Bajg https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0 so it seems like the other side is literally everyone, from every other android project, random other software, to big yt channels that actually promote GrapheneOS… I wonder how long it will take for the lead dev to start saying his own userbase is after him…
Pixels are very expensive in my country but I was looking forward acquiring one in the future, if my finances permitted, just because of GrapheneOS… but honestly, after discovering its creator is a real mental case, unless the project gets forked out of his control, I wouldn’t trust it.

Ok, first I was very worried when I saw the original message, but after watching these videos… well, The Boy Who Cried Wolf came to mind.

Brave ranks above Tor in tosdr.org LOL

Doesn’t browser with anti-fingerpriting give the same settings to everyone using that browser so they all look like the same person?

https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/syncthings-android-app-is-going-away-google-play-store-policies-is-one-of-the-reasons-to-blame/