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Unfortunately Privacy Guard is no longer a thing with LOS17 :(

Ah. News to me. My device is still on LOS15. I also use https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android to monitor apps.

Do you know the reason behind it? Was it replaced by something else?

XprivacyLua works fine as a replacement but it requires Xposed Framework.

But hasn't this gotten very similar to the upstream AOSP 10 app settings? I know they are somewhat hidden, but you can change a lot about an App's behaviour and even fake location data for a specific App.

I didn't use Lineage with Privacy Guard (too old or too new devices)... so what's the TLDR on the featureset that's missing?

Might be worth creating an alternative for 10+ if there isn't any.

My 5yr old phone is apparently compatible but I found lineage essentially didn't work with it. Had to revert to vendor Android. I will try again when I get a new phone though.

How does it otherwise compare to Android or iPhone?

LineageOS is Android. The usual Google Play store is available on it (after installation of gapps). Apparently Privacy Guard is gone in the latest LineageOS. If you're on Android, give this a try: https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android