I’d assume that using the service without paying (money or otherwise) for it would introduce costs to the provider hence being worse than not using it at all.
Google Services Framework if I recall correctly
I’m damn sure our definitions of this word are not aligned
That would force them to reveal it’s sources (unconsented scraping) hence make them liable for any potential lawsuits. As such they would need to withdraw from revealing sources
Depends on what you did! Say for example they’re using Graphene to harass/paedophilia then they already have a copious amount of evidence on hand since they are there.
For organising peaceful protests that seems less of an issue and the other end of the chats is the weak link.
Good luck having them delete your data cuz they didn’t delete mine.
LineageOS without google is a good start if supported
Slow and steady is a better practice than going for the big ones outright.
People are not predictable and they need to be sure this wont affect their business by creating a trend. On second thought it is a bit surprising that no tiktok trend has exploded where they instruct people to block ads with uBlock.
DeGoogle your phone if you can.
I think is time to be proactive regarding privacy rather than just keep whining about it!
Maybe!
I learned the hard way to not take chances though!?
Surprise surprise!
I’ve yet to find someone good in the office since Kennedy!
Fancy charisma or not, all of them have some agenda to attend to that does not align with people’s best interest.
Imagine if the dialer could sync a region specific spam blocklist
I doubt it would have been discovered this fast and easily if it was closed source.
Ohh yeah, gotta think about children’s safety online.
Imagine if the governments were to fund open source projects when they need and as such the benefit is available to everyone if they have no money.
In such scenario all governments/citizens would have access to software that is good.
One could use MailDrop to sign up.
Downside is that you could go back to the site and check their email again making it a potential security risk, that is unless the account isn’t worth pennies!
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