• yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    A 24hr waiting period to use a competitor’s product has to be one of the most blatant anti-competitive behaviour in history.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

      Oh well can’t change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It’s a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren’t clairvoyant.)

      • Bacano@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 month

        If only there were some way to change the ancient text. Some sort of amend-sion. Surely our benevolent leaders would have figured something like that out by now. I guess we’ll just have to keep voting and hoping every four years

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
    21 days

    I switched to grapheneOS. Fuck Google.

    will likely switch to a proper linux phone, when they get to a point of being actually useable

  • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1 month

    I don’t get it, how tf they gonna stop you on phones that already exist?

    A. You can disable any new OS or device updates from Google.

    B. You can keep your existing phone on Android 16 or prior (hell, I’m on 12)

    C. Use alt OS like Graphene, Lineage, Iodé, /e/OS, CalyxOS (they’re back!!), etc

    D. Sign out of Google on your phone, install F-Droid or something from APK package on FF derived browser.

    I’m sure on brands new devices with that patch, plus anyone who doesn’t disable the auto updates will be blocked. But no way no how can Google stop us all!! 🖕🖕🏻🖕🏿🖕🏼

  • l3mming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    The number of times that signing an online petition has prevented the plans of an evil corporation is exactly zero.

    • coredev@programming.devEnglish
      1 month

      I am not so sure. It creats activity, being passive is worse. We should encourage all type of protests, even petitions.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1 month

        It dissipates righteous indignation by making sure that people feel the satisfaction and the release of “doing something” (and thus not act any more forcefully) whilst said “something” is the least impactful thing imaginable.

        It ultimately makes those who would do more do less instead.

  • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
    1 month

    I genuinely appreciate the cause, but to sign this, I have to provide PII, agree to their terms of service and privacy policy, and get automatically opted-in to their mailing list that I’ll have to unsubscribe from later.

    So to petition against this shitty tech stuff, I have to go through this other shitty tech stuff. It sucks how normalized this all has become.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    let’s get real…google isn’t going to stop. why would they? there’s zero repercussions for their aggressive strategy against their own consumers.

    so stop using their products. cut google out, entirely.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    please just make an android alternative

    I want a phone that isn’t a closed ecosystem race to the bottom shit phone

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      1 month

      There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won’t even run on customer Android ROMs easily.

      The regulators are needed here.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    All this effort going towards “saving” green fascism when we should be pouring these efforts into Linux