Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else.
I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.
It's a bit like saying you don't like how the government spies on you, so you're moving to China.
With Apple's CSAM you have an actual option which is just to not use their iCloud photo sharing.
How does their content get on google's servers?
And last time I checked, there was no content-scanning feature implemented in Android (and especially not in Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, or what ever.)
Same way it would get onto Apple’s servers: the customer chooses to upload it.
The difference is that with on-device screening, Apple wouldn’t have to take delivery of CSAM to detect it, and it doesn’t have to scan anything that’s not destined to be uploaded.
Mine doesn't.
It's all good though, I'm still using an iPhone. But might switch, especially with so many people in HN comments telling me that Android would scan all my data and send it to Google without being able to substantiate that claim.
Or you may be one of the rare breed of people who can use a "de-Googled" Android distribution, such as CalyxOS, for over a month before giving up.
Time will tell, I suppose.
I'd love to have the tolerance to jump to a de-Googled Android phone and bypass FAANG's walled garden. I've tried many times.
I ran (and contributed to!) LineageOS^WCyanogenmod for years and years. It was great.
I can see myself returning to LineageOS (or similar), as iOS is getting quite buggy and I am put off by the wealth of gestures. It seems like whenever I use the iPhone, I accidentally swipe into some other screen. It's like slipping on banana peels.