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This site has really been fighting things the wrong way. Reading every ToS, installing linux, replacing the firmware on your router, etc won't give you you righ

This site has really been fighting things the wrong way. Reading every ToS, installing linux, replacing the firmware on your router, etc won't give you you rights back. It's an impossible battle. The real solution is having the laws updated to enshrine your rights. Years of promoting f-droid and custom android roms did far less for software freedom than the EU telling Apple they need to open up their platform, and telling tech companies to respect user privacy.

luqtas 3y ago
from where new laws get inspired? if it wasn't for people doing their small thing, maybe the EU wouldn't require Apple "opening up"
lolinder 3y ago
> Years of promoting f-droid and custom android roms did far less for software freedom than the EU telling Apple they need to open up their platform It is way too early to call that this will result in a net benefit for software freedom. We already have a platform—Android—that provides the freedoms that the EU is mandating Apple now provide. What we are getting is a second platform that now cannot provide an alternative type of service to consumers. That honestly feels like a net loss in consumer choice, not progress.