The post argues that mobile privacy in 2025 is effectively broken on mainstream iPhone and stock Android devices, and that Google Pixel phones running GrapheneOS are the best practical option for users who want stronger privacy and security. That core claim matches a broader privacy community view that ordinary stock Android is heavily tied to Google data collection, while hardened Android setups on Pixel devices are often treated as the strongest mainstream privacy choice; however, some privacy guides still say iPhone has better default privacy than stock Android, so the “dead on stock Android and iOS” framing is stronger than the evidence supports.

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