Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. “[…] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren’t allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like.” says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @NGIZero @murena @microg @delta
https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/
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and if you want to be taken seriously you should rethink your sentences. similar arguments can be made about Apple, that they for example are one of the only players out there (along with Mozilla) to provide an alternate rendering engine. google’s control of the internet is hugely impacted by chrome and android is one of the pillars of that foundation.
Point is, they both have issues but to some (myself included) I do believe that my privacy and security is better served by Apple, despite the walled garden.
Pick your poison.
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Well, this is a mature reply. Have a good one.
The problem is that android is tried heavily to proprietary google software
You can still install a ROM ungoogled. It’s like https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872, Google trying to shut down Invidious, but they can’t. Don’t let big tech fool you, there is freedom, you just need to be educated to those tools.
@waag @danlammerhirt @efoundation @fdroid @murena @microg @delta We are NLnet Labs; we develop #OpenSource software for Core Internet Infrastructure. We presume you meant to mention the NLnet Foundation - @NGIZero (don’t worry, it happens a lot).
@nlnetlabs @danlammerhirt @efoundation @fdroid @murena @microg @delta @NGIZero thanks! We changed the tag. 👍
me installing whatever
.apk
’s I want liberally.Not sure what the issue is -.-
I also enjoy browsing with Firefox+UBlock and a custom DNS.
Can apple users use/edit a custom DNS on their device directly even??
Apparently, but whenever I’ve tried it hasn’t seemed to worked.
Try NextDNS.
Ive been keeping my eye on purely linux devices recently
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@rdyoung @breadsmasher “Android is open source”
Well… AOSP is open source.
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Lineage OS is great and all but at the end of the day most phones have google malware
It’s not that easy, Google heavily dictates the development goals of Android. It’s basically developed behind closed doors, and then the source is dumped to the public after each release. Still better than iOS, but nothing like regular Linux distros
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Do you have evidence to backup your statement?
And yet it’s been sliced and diced, features added and removed, distributions created for many devices since its inception by countless developers of varying skill level. It’s a lot more like regular Linux distros than not.
You don’t get to choose the direction Debian takes on what init or sound daemon they ship. The Debian organization does. You might be able to observe their deliberations, but your input is unlikely to be a part of it. In the end the result ends up in the repos. You can take that and change it, just like people have done with Android for many years.
AOSP is dying as Google has replaced all the core apps with proprietary versions. On top of that the Android SDK has proprietary software included and a EULA