Ehhhh… sorta maybe. Ultimately they can’t, but they can make development more difficult.

Also Google has nothing to do with whether or not you’re bootloader is unlockable. Get a phone that is.

If you rally want to go down the whole FOSS path it does ultimately become a bit of a lifestyle.

Just use a custom ROM. This sadly will affect app developers. But if you are on a custom ROM without GMS it will continue to work just fine.

What am I not seeing? How does this improve datamining capabilities?

The issue isn’t that. It’s that devs may juat abandon projects if they’re too naughty for Google cos the custom ROM crowd is so tiny.

Right so think torrent clients, idk, Pornhub app, that sort of thing. Yeah, it doesn’t affect your phone. But it absolutely will affect what software is available at all should Google clamp down on this.

Lol. So did MacAfee. He said he had tried “all the drugs” and they gave him a clearance.

I don’t think there are any hard and fast requirements. The idea is to analyze your overall risk, not whether or not you’re a naughty person for having done drugs.

I mean… He makes rockets for them. Wouldn’t he have to have some clearance of some kind?

hear hear!

Ah yes, cos that would lead to stellar leadership in Mozilla.

Thank goodness.

It is not that simple. These are cat and mouse games. Whack a mole. Whatever you’d like to say.

For this reason, we must still take a stand against this stuff.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Didn’t swiftpad or whatever its called send every key pressed to Microsoft?

Not a China shill. China is horrible. Microsoft less so as they don’t commit genocide in slow motion. But still, I think this sort of thing is more common than we think.

Use FOSS.

Ooh a lot of people here seem very pro-nuclear-power. That’s cool!

An amazing story! I doubt I ever have kids, but if I do I’ll do something like this. God knows what sort of dumbed down tech crap they’ll be fed in school.

There are a lot of commies here. I don’t particularly like them but that is there right and lemmy is not and should not be pro-censorship. If somepeople don’t like them they should find an instance that suits you better.