Not directed at you, just as a reference for anyone stumbling over this post: Don’t reject security updates. There is no reason and it leaves vulnerabilities unpatched. You risk a lot and gain nothing. Patch regularly.
They remind you, and implore you, telling you that it can be a security risk, but they don’t secretly update in the background or stuff like that. Fairphone has also always been very supportive towards installing non-stock android OS on their devices, (including pure Linux distros for phones running well enough).
Do they force updates on users or can these be rejected completely?
Why would you reject updates?
Because I want to.
Not directed at you, just as a reference for anyone stumbling over this post: Don’t reject security updates. There is no reason and it leaves vulnerabilities unpatched. You risk a lot and gain nothing. Patch regularly.
“I want to be left with security holes unpatched”
They remind you, and implore you, telling you that it can be a security risk, but they don’t secretly update in the background or stuff like that. Fairphone has also always been very supportive towards installing non-stock android OS on their devices, (including pure Linux distros for phones running well enough).
They even have a list on their forum with OSs you can install. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/operating-systems-for-fairphones/11425
That’s helpful, thank you. This kind of crap from Samsung drove me insane.