Speedy218

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by Speedy218 1y ago
People change their tune extremely quickly when you ask them to show you their phone, ask them for the password and let you look through it to make sure you don't have anything bad on it. Every single message, every single app and ever
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by Speedy218 1y ago
Me too, we'll see.
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by Speedy218 1y ago
EU has proved that they are exactly just like the big corps pushing for control and less privacy.
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by Speedy218 1y ago
Luckily you can't enshittify something that is already shit (not necessarily but you get what I mean) .
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by Speedy218 1y ago
I think it can be company details if you're an actual company, but they'll probably still have you list some kind of primary point of contact (e.g. head developer or something).
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by Speedy218 1y ago
I'd argue it's basically the same thing except added in a complication to make it sound less bad. Google still has the final say here on what apps you install and don't install on your phone because verified developer's
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by Speedy218 1y ago
Can't you write apps in C++ or something alike on android if you really wanted to?
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by Speedy218 1y ago
It's super convenient storing your payment card in your phone securely though and not having to carry around another card which can be stolen or lost at any time, it's nice simply taking your phone out and holding it to a reader t
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by Speedy218 1y ago
Sadly "non-certified" phones come at a big consequence, I wrote a big article on it on HN but I'll give you the summary, Google has added in "play integrity" into all certified phones which detects if your bootloade
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by Speedy218 1y ago
The privacy and control implications this has is absolutely insane, they are control freaks just like almost every other big corporation. I'd fully argue that what they are doing to us is worse than the supposed stuff that happens to c
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by Speedy218 1y ago
It would be nice if Google cared, but sadly they're more interested in how this will make them more money and how seamlessly they can integrate it with existing verified developers. We as the users are quite frankly at the bottom of th
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by Speedy218 1y ago
This seriously pisses me off. We are literally watching the end of true ownership of our phones end right before our eyes, imagine if your laptop or new motherboard you purchased from MSI or whoever did the same and locked the bootloader to
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by Speedy218 1y ago
Important sentence is "..or at least not as often as they should" :) I have no doubt most people brush their teeth in one capacity or another, but do you really think 98% of people brush them regularly and sufficiently? I reckon t
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by Speedy218 2y ago
> but now it is “overmedicating” a vulnerable fraction of the population. Makes sense, but the intention also is that many people do not brush their teeth, or at least do not brush them as often as they should, and so fluoride is added t
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by Speedy218 2y ago
They put in a lot of work to make it seem like they do believe it or not, I'm not sure how well it is working out for them though.