kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@dazinism @amolith

I've never really owned a FairPhone. I like the idea behind it but I like the idea of spending $500 for a new smartphone much less. I'm just switching from one 2-3 years old used smartphone to another, flashing them with /e/ or LineageOS (depending on hardware compatibility).

@dazinism @amolith

You're right about the priorities, which is precisely why I guess neither LineageOS nor /e/ made a big fuss of it. But then you had the wave of people making a whole scandal based on this, humbly described above as "some privacy concerns" 😂

As for 204, Google gets your IP and User-Agent as minimum, and I agree that people have right not to want to share this with them. And "standing out" assumes you're under DPI, which is a rare threat scenario.

@bortzmeyer

Full collection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusztai_affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ralini_affair

@bortzmeyer

🤔

@dump_stack @kmic Doesn't seem to work on my microG but on OP6T I had to go with LineageOS+Magisk so every upgrade is a manual one.

#NHSCOVID19app NHS Covid-19 won't run unless you update Google Play Services" <-- which effectively prevents it from running on any #Android device other than Google certified.

@chris

Yes - Google 😂 This will be announced as a great success and way to preserve Mozilla, whose management will get third-row but well-paid roles in Chrome team, and then Gecko will be finally buried 🤦‍♂️

@ScottMortimer

@ljwrites I had asked myself the same questions, although I used different words 😂

@amolith

I'm using /e/ for ~2 years and even contributed to it a bit. All listed controversies were basically about "they say degoogled, but not degoogled enough", mostly because LineageOS still has quite a lot of Google code in them. For example you can't remove Google 204 connectivity check... until you implement your own, which /e/ and GrapheneOS did, but LineageOS didn't. GrapheneOS developer is however an arrogant dick, so I've stopped using it and settled with /e/.

@ljwrites

Once you've cleaned bathroom sewage pipes and pulled a ton of tampons from *there* there's no taboos anymore 😂

@thomasfuchs

Same in the UK.

@roskomsvoboda

Учитывая что немцы уже давно блокируют даже Google Street View у себя, вряд ли это бы прошло.

@neil What kind of IoT? Experimenting with LoRaWAN I was quite surprised to discover that it's sending everything through third party servers, but that's kind of by design - thus the WAN part in LoRaWAN :)