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I don't want to laugh about this. I am seriously freaking out at the idea of using the built-in apps instead of the open source equivalents. Calculator with Internet access? Camera app with ads before I click? Browser that spies on me no matter what searches I perform? No thank you.
The issue is that the masses will use the out of the box functionality and not think much of it. Most normal users don't mind that they can only pull from official app stores, and like the idea that this system is more secure. If everyone who didn't like this change stopped using the platform entirely, they would still have enough customers to maintain profitability.
and like the idea that this system is more secure.
*The false claim
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/labs/malicious-google-play-apps-bypassed-android-security
Introduce cutting edge tech to the masses, claiming it will usher in a new era of connection, convenience and utility.
Firmly entrench that tech into every corner of modern society so that most day-to-day activities SUPPOSEDLY cannot be done without it.
Slowly tighten the screws by removing user agency and freedom while raising prices.
Become obscenely wealthy from an entire generation of locked-in consumers who think they have no choice but to submit to your control over their lives.
Wash, rinse and repeat.
And yet none of my friends and family can see this blatantly right in front of them. Have people gotten stupider ? Its as obvious as the sun being hot.
It's that whole frog analogy, where you can slowly boil a frog alive by gradually increasing the temperature by small increments.
I'm pretty sure that's a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren't actually that stupid and jump out of the water.
Hopefully not coming off as too much of an ass, but normies largely won't care, as it doesn't immediately affect them. Knowing it's a bad thing requires a bit of understanding about an operating system that most people just don't know or care to learn about.
Right, it’s of no consequence to people who just browse Facebook and do online banking and candy crush and watch TikTok reels. They’re already perfectly happy giving up everything about themselves.
I don't know if they're stupid or have just given up or what. I always feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk to people about technology. Usually they can't even acknowledge there's a problem while I'm so pissed off about it that I'm not sure I could restrain myself from doing physical harm if I found myself in the presence of some of the people responsible for this shit. It's incredibly frustrating.
I am 10000% in the same boat. I can't even talk to them about tech because like you, I'll go insane trying to make them understand these issues and they just laugh it off, or I'm a crazy tinfoil hat person. Even though its documented 100% proven what big tech does.
A lot of them have given up as well. I mean, say you have a kid, then you forgo thinking about anything else in the world except that, who cares if zucc and thiel are destroying the world and surveiling you constantly to bring in a new era of authoritarianism that will result in mass suffering? Your kid needs food. Parents by and large do not care what is actually going on, theyre too busy (from what ive seen.) And I can't really blame them.
So I prefer to have intelligent conversation online, and when around IRL folks I just act as dumb as them.
Yes. Yes they have. All it takes is one charismatic idiot to make your otherwise thoughtful and mindful friends to debate themselves. It sucks, but welcome to the world.
So an iPhone
Honestly, iPhone is already there in shittyland. You need to jailbreak to do it, which you can host install GraphineOS or root your android easier for the same effect.
We need a 3rd primer mobile OS option, but won't get one since the money always enshittifies these things.
The most annoying part is the number of good mobile OSs we have already lost over the years to these two; Symbian, BB10, Windows Phone, and WebOS come to mind just off the top of my head. Not to mention the projects that have struggled for traction like Mozilla OS and Ubuntu Touch.
No, stop using vanilla corpo software. They will just fuck you again. Just put an aftermarket ROM on your android phone. I run LineageOS on an old OnePlus model. You can build it yourself if you're techy and paranoid, otherwise the tutorials to flash an official prebuilt image are not that hard for a tech-literate person.
F-Droid for foss app repo
Aurora Store for anonymous Google Play login and installs
Can't stay on Android because Google is anti-privacy. Can't get a GrapheneOS phone because they're only compatible with non-repairable devices. Can't get a FairPhone or Jolla because I live in America. Can't get an HMD because the bootloader is locked.
Even e/os and LineageOS have security problems.
There is no good phone on the market, to my knowledge. You can't have privacy, repairability, and security all at the same time.
I'm looking forward to the Motorola and Graphene partnership. I may finally upgrade the S10 in still using.
Can’t get a GrapheneOS phone because they’re only compatible with non-repairable devices
Replaced the battery in my Pixel 7 in like 30 min with an iFixit kit, nowhere near as imposing as I'd thought. They have screens too, the rest is mainboard, but that's nearly all phones.
Why cant you repair the google phones? Most of the common repairs are not that hard to do. I recently did a battery swap on a "non repairable phone" cost $30 and was pretty easy. Going to replace the usb c port next.
This is the behaviour that brings you to pay multi billion fines in Europe
Yes, but sadly this will take a few years.
I'm surprised Google took 20 years to completely enshittify Android.
So I'll keep using F-Droid then?
I paid off my old phone early and got a grapheneOS phone ASAP just because of these motherfuckers.
Hell, I was firmly in the Android camp specifically because of the open source nature of their software. I never made the apps I wanted to make, but I like having the option to do so.
So you can go fuck yourself, google. Yes my phone is a Googlepixel 10 because they work best with grapheneOS. In a few years if I can I will get a Linux phone.
I'm really hoping we get a hard fork of AOSP that gets really popular.
A yellow-coded curfew is in effect. This is for your security.
You also get AI features you never wanted. Now shut up and be happy
So I already have apps downloaded from f including encrypted folder. What happens to this fron September. Do i get to keep them?
If i do get to keep them are there any apps I should download while I still can.
Also if f droid is going to stop working but I already have it what does that mean? Are google going to outright takeover my phone like some IT department in a big company and delete and install everything they want on there?
Once this rolls out, the apps stop working. Google have said there'll be a process you can go through to allow other apps on your phone, but it doesn't seem to be available yet. Presumably you'll need to go through this if you want to use f-droid after the change too.
What in the Apple products are you trying to do Google? Guess we will just dump you like we did Windows when they put 11 out and the Linux draw became too great.
Will graphene get fucked by this too? My plan was to switch over in September but I'm not sure if the changes mean graphene will be made useless.
My understanding is that no... not yet anyway. Phones with GrapheneOS are not "verified" Android so you can proceed to install whatever.
There will b .indirect damage with some devs likely stopping development as their userbase might get smaller still - if they refuse registering with Google.
And I guess there is a future when Google will start tightening the noose on Android itself, which will likely make alternate Android OSs harder to develop (though I know nothing about these things, I sense this is an option down the line).
The (my) Jolla Phone can't come soon enough. I really hope it holds up to the expectations.