<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amiga-workbench</author><text>I think you would have to be mad to leave the stock ROM running on a Xiaomi phone, IIRC they were caught logging peoples browser history a few years ago.
Several models have mainline LineageOS support, I&amp;#x27;m running Lineage on my Mix 2S and hope to have years worth of updates going forward.
The hardware is really good value as long as you install an non-tainted OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpderetta</author><text>I was stupid enough to buy a Xiaomi phone without enough due diligence. Aside from all spying that is going on, the software is abysmal.&lt;p&gt;The problem with replacing the OS is that I believe most banking apps I use will stop working. Might just need to write this phone off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amiga-workbench</author><text>I think you would have to be mad to leave the stock ROM running on a Xiaomi phone, IIRC they were caught logging peoples browser history a few years ago.
Several models have mainline LineageOS support, I&amp;#x27;m running Lineage on my Mix 2S and hope to have years worth of updates going forward.
The hardware is really good value as long as you install an non-tainted OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EveYoung</author><text>Not to sound paranoid, but won&amp;#x27;t even LinageOS phones have to run closed-sourced firmware and drivers?</text></comment>