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What is the point of this project (and most other Android-ish projects) if you are still stuck with the same binary blobs, modem OS you can't see or change, ROM
by oneplane 8y ago
What is the point of this project (and most other Android-ish projects) if you are still stuck with the same binary blobs, modem OS you can't see or change, ROM loaders in the SoC, persistent code running with higher privs than your kernel (which is often woefully outdated and full of holes).
If you simply don't want your phone to talk to google, connect to a WiFi AP you control which also blocks all of Google's AS-numbers and thus the subnets they contain.
- Bud 8y agoOr you could, you know, get an iPhone. A product from a company that actually cares about user privacy and also has the resources to do something about it. Unlike this project.
- Fnoord 8y agoDo you maintain such a dynamic blocklist?
- oneplane 8y agoNo need, IANA does that for you, and via that, ARIN etc. I don't block Google like that myself, but some clients wanted such provisions (sometimes with exclusions which makes it somewhat pointless), just like some do for Facebook etc. If you have a network that is specialised enough, it becomes a lot easier to do this, you turn it into a whitelist instead of a blacklist.