• ClosedGL
    22·
    4 years ago

    My first thought upon reading the title:

    It was always spyware

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      8·
      4 years ago

      Yeah I switched to FF a few years ago precisely because of that, and would never touch Chrome again.

      • Lightbritelite
        1·
        4 years ago

        I only use chrome to watch internet videos illegally. Ublock doesn’t seem to block all i need in firefox, unless that’s changed

                • southerntofu
                  4·
                  4 years ago

                  Breathe and cool down, the world is not falling apart just yet… though that’s coming sooner or later. Did you invest significant resources into Brave or other cryptoscams? If so, are you willing to run the bet, knowing it’s a pure speculation game and there’s more chances you’ll loose your investment than make a fortune? Otherwise, can you get out of the system easily and without loosing too much?

                  We all make bad decisions sooner or later. It’s even easier to make bad decisions when we’re bombarded by contracting information, especially advertisement (and Brave has been really active on that front). You should not hate yourself for making a bad call, but learn from your mistake so you don’t repeat it.

                  In a capitalist society, there’s no such thing as free money. Investments is only profitable if you have enough millions to diversify your investment ; for people like you and me, it’s mathematically-ensured we’ll loose (almost) everything. Remember when 1929 was the biggest and last crisis because the system would become more resilient? Yeah they’ve been playing that card for that long, if not longer…

                  Anyway don’t hesitate if you have more questions, and don’t trust advertisements for revolutionary concepts in the future. “The revolution will not be televised” said the revolutionary slogan. A modern take on it could be “The revolution won’t be advertised”. Take care

  • IngrownMink4
    122·
    4 years ago

    Luckily there are projects like Ungoogled Chromium to avoid this kind of thing :persevering face:

  • Egg Cat
    6·
    4 years ago

    and that is why i use open source things.

  • Geotechland
    74·
    4 years ago

    i gotta give apple credit. their software may be closed source but their privacy policy seems to be decent and is exposing all these data mining companies.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      5·
      4 years ago

      It’s an artifact of them retaining a traditional business model where they sell you a product and you pay them money for it. Since they’re selling you a product they want you to have confidence that the product works in your interest. On the other hand, companies like Google is that they give stuff like Chrome to you for free and then make money mining your usage data. So the actual product ends up being your data and Chrome is just a tool for getting it out of you.

  • samuraikid
    31·
    4 years ago

    For Apple lovers don’t yet say thanks on apple, Steve Jobs used to use Android instead of iphone just saying

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      4·
      4 years ago

      My view is that only open tech is worth getting invested in. It’s important to recognize that no matter how good a company might be sooner or later their business incentives will no longer be aligned with your interests.

      • samuraikid
        1·
        4 years ago

        I agree with you, and thus a rooted Android doesn’t put limits on something that is yours (I mean bought with your own money)

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          2·
          4 years ago

          There’s still a problem with you having to root it though. I’m really hoping Linux phones like PinePhone get to the point where you can run most popular apps on them.

          • samuraikid
            1·
            4 years ago

            It’s all misinformation about root being dangerous etc etc don’t you have root acess on your linux machine ?

            On your Android phone without it you simply can’t remove the bloatware, crappware manufactors use to track you with apps that you’ll never use and can’t open but still they are installed on your phone

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
              2·
              4 years ago

              Yeah the problem is that phones are being treated as appliances and they’re locked away from the user. So you’re really hacking around that when you root it. I imagine eventually it’s not even going to be possible to root phones since most people don’t really care if the option disappears.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
                  6·
                  4 years ago

                  My point is that people are actively working around the fact that the device is locked from the user by default. For now you can still root them easily enough, but that can change in the future. It’s also a fundamentally shitty situation to be in. Even after you root, getting OS updates becomes problematic as they can revert your phone back to being locked. You’re not really meant to be in control of the phone.

                  I want a phone that’s open by design and I don’t want to jump through hoops to use it the way that suits me.

  • Niquarl
    1·
    4 years ago

    Where do people get this information? In the Appstore? How does one see it. I can’t find it anywhere