UltraVision fully respects your privacy

Furthermore, any info you personally insert into the app, such as your name and email address, is stored on US-based servers

Lol, immediate contradiction.

Answer to your question: Only local/offline is privacy respecting. Anything else is naif

/e/OS is not Google free (several calls, integrations and so on are connecting to Google). It makes use of OpenAI as well, uses tracking ids for updates. It is far behind regarding updates and thus risking privacy due to lack of security. They ignore any sort or critique.

Graphene: You have to buy a Google device. Even second hand is support as it increases the value of their devices (or stabilize) and you walk arround with their name.

Advice: Have a look at Iode.

Pick a device that is not meant to be used for many years as Graphene plans to support a non Google device in coorporation with an unknown manufacturer.

(Written from a Fairphone using /e/)

Childish attitude. It definitely makes a difference walking arround with a Google logo. If it’s okay for you: fine, says alot.

One should avoid giving money and presenting Google (and others) wherever and whenever possible.

It is not. It is better than bloated Google Android but not “great”.

• They use tracking ids for updates
• They are far behind with updates lowering security and thus risking privacy
• They use testing keys which is ridicolous
• They added OpenAI integration and called it “Murena Voice to Text” so that unfiliar users could unintentially leak sensitive data
• They ignore valid critique and call it ‘personal harassment’ although nothing personal nor something like harassment happen there (for example in related /e/OS threads)

Never use Chromium based browsers as it is coming from Google and gives it more power. The only alternative is Gecko / Firefox based: Fennec for Android and Librewolf for desktop.