Based on our record, DivestOS seems to be a lot more popular than KaiOS. While we know about 38 links to DivestOS, we've tracked only 2 mentions of KaiOS. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
What website did you go to? KaiOS is not dangerous. I'm dubious that their official site (kaiostech.com) would have trojans or malware on it... Source: 6 months ago
LetsEncrypt ISRG Root X1's IdenTrust DST Root CA X3 cross-signing has come to an end. This means that any device/browser (including KaiOS devices) which doesn't yet trust the ISRG Root X1 will no longer trust any site with a LetsEncrypt certificate (which, by the way, includes kaiostech.com!). Source: over 2 years ago
DivestOS is a slightly modified Lineage version that officially supports relocking on some phones (in contrast with Lineage, which I think can be relocked but explicitly tells users not to do that). It also has sandboxed implementations of both official Google services — ported from Graphene, I think – and microG. I'm using it with microG, bootloader relocked, and it seems to pass SafetyNet this way – at... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Mulch System WebView (version 584516401): Security oriented WebView. Source: 8 months ago
A step up in terms of privacy would be DivestOS but the only time that I tried to install it didn't boot and I didn't have time to troubleshoot why, but that's a really nice project that I would look again in the future. Source: about 1 year ago
Mulch System WebView (version 561513603): Security oriented WebView. Source: about 1 year ago
If CalyxOS stops supporting a Pixel, the next best OS is DivestOS. It provides additional hardening that CalyxOS doesn't but it doesn't support microG. Source: about 1 year ago
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