Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I’m currently using. The one we can’t talk about… He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I’m afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What’s your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

  • tty5@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 年前

    No security fixes once the device reaches end of life. For pixel 4a end of security updates was 10 months ago. That mostly is a problem with malicious apps - there were some privilege escalation bugs in those 10 months - but sometimes you get a banger that can get exploited by simply loading a page or opening an image.

    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      Wouldn’t those be typically handled at an OS level? If you’re using an OS that actually gets updates, you’re only vulnerable to attacks at the kernel or driver level

      • tty5@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 个月前

        If you are on stock software on EOL device you are not getting os updates either.

        Also a bunch of recent vulns were in SoC specific stuff - outside os.

    • AnxiousDuck@feddit.it
      2·
      11 个月前

      I get it about malicious apps but what about just using mainstream apps and surfing the web with adblockers?