I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Big corporations like Google, Apple, love fascism. It's easier to profit by bribing a dictator, than it is to compete fairly in a free marketplace
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It's easier to profit up until the orange idiot wakes up with a random personal vendetta one day because he had a dream that Tim Apple mentioned Bubba or something
But I guess in the short term it's more profitable which really is the only thing corporations care about
All these people see which way the wind is blowing, and assume that Trump, by hook or by crook, will be out by next year. Vance has literally no center. He's happy to take the cash from whoever and do whatever, even if it's contradictory or straight up illegal. They're all banking on Vance being in the chair by 2027, and they're willing to potentially take the year of losses if it means they have a hollow shell of a human being to deadhand whatever's in front of him.
But I guess in the short term it's more profitable which really is the only thing corporations care about
That's on paper - that we know about. They are excellent long term planners, and the actual left needs to study that.
"And all that pesky DEI crap, ugh! This is so much easier. Now it's just this, pride month, and saying we planted a tree for our customers to offset their consumerism; which is their fault, not our's. We honestly deserve a tax break."
Google? The company that helps Israel commit genocide? Wow I'm surprised /s
Google changed the name of Gulf of Mexico when pedonald decided he wanted too. They will do any 1984 type of shit the fascists ask them too if they expect to make more money. Fuck them all.
They have declared war on humanity. They will replace us with AI and rocket fuel as soon as they are able to.
Every tech company has done this, if you don't like that, stop or at least reduce the amount of money or free data you are giving them, there's lots of guides on how to move away from their products
And remember folks, it doesn't have to be everything all at once if that's too much for you. Just start, and work further as you can
Long way from the dont be evil days eh?
They have chosen the side of money...as they always do.
Google was never on our side
So....when should we see those apps on FDroid?
It won't matter if Google goes ahead and blocks "sideloading".
The point is that it's not disabled now. They should degoogle themselves.
Or do a PWA so that it can run as a browser app
Well it's a darn good thing that Google doesn't have a mission like, "don't be evil" otherwise this would be super awkward!