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People really have any expectation from Google devices? Even android which whole marketing is that it is "more open" only receives self-serving features. Btw,
by gcb0 10y ago
People really have any expectation from Google devices?
Even android which whole marketing is that it is "more open" only receives self-serving features. Btw, the access to chrome-cast is baked in the playStore service. So your app has to be compiled with full google play store tracking library to use it. ...i used to help maintain a version of fenec (firefox for android) that was build without chromecast support just because of this (and if you want it, gnu now maintains a better version called IceCat)
Oh, and even plain-open-source projects... there were 4 attempts to have an option to disable referrer on chromium. All of them reverted by google employers on unrelated commits. So even chromium is not that safe.
- petre 10y agoJust remove their commit rights or fork the project.
- throwaway2048 10y agoGoogle runs the chromium project.
- petre 10y agoLooks like various parties have forked the codebase already. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
- fulafel 10y agoThis is more about Google's desktop software (removing stuff from Chromium) than about Google's devices.
- gcb0 10y agoi mention an example on exactly that too...
- ttflee 10y agoI owned a Nexus One before it was stolen. I waited for an upgrade to Android 4.0 but it never materialized.
- gcb0 10y agoLOL. I still have mine. On the desktop dock used as a MP3 player dedicated for the living room receiver. it still runs android 2.3 (custom rom, obviously), which is the latest one that google released the closed source hardware drivers for. and people still insist android is open source.