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### Phones to Avoid
Avoid buying the Fairphone 4, which only has just over 2 years of full security updates since its release date despite them advertising 6 years of support. This is because the System on a Chip they use (Snapdragon 750G) only has 3 years of support from Qualcomm, and the SoC was already old when the phone came out. This is not to mention, the Fairphone 4 [uses the Android Verified Boot Test Key as their OEM keys](https://forum.fairphone.com/t/bootloader-avb-keys-used-in-roms-for-fairphone-3-4/83448/11), effectively making Verified Boot useless. In general, you should check for how long the SoC a phone uses is supported for and not blindly trust the phone manufacturer's claims.

You should also avoid buying phones preloaded with /e/ OS (sometimes branded as the Murena phones). /e/ OS in itself is extremely insecure, engaging in security bad practices that include, but are not limited to, not supporting verified boot; shipping userdebug build; [shipping months-old version of Chromium; and bundling years-old version of Orbot into their operating system, then marketing it as "Advanced Privacy"](https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt). There was also a recent incident where their cloud service mishandled session keys and gave users access to other's files, then proceeded to [mislead users that the server cannot see their files](https://community.e.foundation/t/service-announcement-26-may/41252/30), despite there being no end-to-end encryption.
You should also avoid buying phones preloaded with /e/OS (sometimes branded as the Murena phones). /e/OS in itself is extremely insecure, engaging in security bad practices that include, but are not limited to, not supporting verified boot; shipping userdebug build; [shipping months-old version of Chromium; and bundling years-old version of Orbot into their operating system, then marketing it as "Advanced Privacy"](https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt). There was also a recent incident where their cloud service mishandled session keys and gave users access to other's files, then proceeded to [mislead users that the server cannot see their files](https://community.e.foundation/t/service-announcement-26-may/41252/30), despite there being no end-to-end encryption.

You should also be very wary of low quality privacy branded phones like the Freedom Phone, BraX2 Phone, Volta Phone, and the like. These are cheap Chinese phones with the [Mediatek Helio P60](https://i.mediatek.com/p60) from 2018, which has already reached or is near end-of-life. Needless to say, you should also avoid any vendor who claims they are Zero-day proof like this:

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You will be given the option to either delete your advertising ID or *Opt out of interest-based ads* --- this varies between OEM distributions of Android. If presented with the option to delete the advertising ID, choosing that is preferred. If not, then make sure to opt out and reset your advertising ID.
You will be given the option to either delete your advertising ID or *Opt out of interest-based ads* --- this varies between OEM distributions of Android. If presented with the option to delete the advertising ID, choosing that is preferred. If not, then make sure to opt out and reset your advertising ID. Note that apps can still communicate with each other if they have mutual consent, regardless of the advertising ID.

### Google Messages

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