I thought we settled this years ago

All the bots will just come to Fedi. I’ve already seen some.

Sure, google play is a standard part of android, but you don’t need to have it, though you do need SOME kind of app installer. Samsung ofc has its own. Kindle Fires used their own and didn’t have Google Play iirc, but you could install it yourself.

What is the claim behind “runs Google?” The Fairphone also runs Android doesn’t it? How is it any less Google than a Samsung?

Honestly, people are probably going to start using it much less once they put in ads on the the low and free tiers.

They’re realizing they can’t turn profit over expenses when the VC money dries up without jacking price.

Same shit different fad. Offshoring was all the rage until the demand meant they started charging more, the quality went down, and the reality of cross-timezone management became obvious. Cloud was all the rage until the prices went up from demand and also kept running into outages, and now some companies are “re-inhousing” their infrastructure.

Cant’ wait till they realize they also can’t deliver at regular clip with only half the workers. Wont’ be soon enough, alas.

Yeah right. Next you’ll be telling people to get off corporate owned social media and use something without an algorithm.

Still that’s kinda rich coming from one of the world’s biggest leaders of religion, which literally encourages people to believe things without evidence and simply based on who tells them, based on unseen guidance.

I seem to recall an early 00s screed, perhaps by Bruce Schneier or someone of that ilk, suggesting a future in which yes we have surveillance in the public square, but since it’s public, everyone has full access to all the public-place cameras at any time. So you could use it to, say, see around the corner of an alley at night.

This is the Mozilla Foundations version of “we dun goofed”

I don’t know how to tell you this, but not everything a computer does is AI.

Yeah I’m glad this news is like everywhere and a major scandal and there will be a fallout

Show them your O face

I mean, this is corporations using decent regulations as an excuse to do something they’ve probably already wanted to do.

I don’t understand why the user doing what they want to their own possessions has any impact on the original manufacturer.

Samsung isn’t selling flashed devices as far as I know…

Ha… He was the Lib Dem poster boy for a good decade. And they’re something akin to pro-business libertarians. I wonder what Lib Dem Dep PM Clegg would have said to this!

you can go into the app and literally see your request history

US Republicans be like “ANTI-BUSINESS! Enjoying communism?”

Wish someone had done this for Reader

Am I the only one still not seeing ads on YT with Ublock?

Can someone check in with the inventor of the web and ask him what the web’s business model is?