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/e/ (formerly Eelo) is a partly free and open-sourceoperating system for smartphones and associated online services, based on the Android mobile operating system[1][2][3][4], NextCloud, OnlyOffice and Postfix[5]. The mobile operating system is a fork of LineageOS. [6] The custom ROM is developed by the E Foundation, which was founded by French entrepreneur Gaël Duval. /e/ is marketed as privacy software that does not contain proprietaryGoogle apps or services,[7] and challenges the public to "find any parts of the system or default applications that are still leaking data to Google." [8]
Background
In 2017, /e/ founder Duval, through a series of articles titled "Leaving Apple & Google: my /e/ odyssey", proposed the concept of an operating system without privacy-invasive software. This was followed by a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The OS was initially named Eelo,[7] but the name was subsequently changed to /e/ due to trademark issues. [9] In January 2018 Duval acknowledged using Google Adwords to analyze and improve "driving people to my two different landing pages" leading up to the Kickstarter campaign. [10][undue weight? – discuss]
In March 2019, Duval wrote, "I’m very pleased that some security and privacy experts are starting to have a close look at /e/, and are challenging what we are doing," and thanked InfoSec Handbook experts for their review, which concluded, “While /e/ looks promising, it isn’t Google-free by now.” As of April 2019, the issues were being tracked in /e/'s Gitlab. [11][12]
