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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I bought a handheld computer, now Google says I'm not allowed to do whatever the hell I want to it (keepandroidopen.org)

submitted 1 week ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage

I hope that my rooted One UI 7 doesn't get the update through some backdoor in the Google Play Services package... Or the next time I unblock Google Play to update the very few paid apps that I use...

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[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago

Nice! Especially the Liberux, as it seems like it's going to have "jailed" Android for apps that need that environment. Maybe that's similar to what Graphene does with their sandboxed Google Play Services?

If my Samsung is shot (and shut) down during this year, I'm leaning toward a Liberux, Jolla or a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch, in that order.