Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It feels good to say that I’ve been rid of Google for a while. They can shove Play Serives and Store too.
Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It feels good to say that I’ve been rid of Google for a while. They can shove Play Serives and Store too.
Nobilmantis@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
How is it with notifications and location nowadays? That’s my main concern about switching. SafetyNet or dog developers enableing “check if app installed from playstore” stuff?
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Anything that uses FCM doesn’t get push notifications. That’s most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I’ve not had any issues with location.
I’ve had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an “enable Google Play Services” at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it’s nothing critical so I don’t care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven’t had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don’t care.
But apps can’t hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more “update available” pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There’s also just the plain satisfaction of being free.
Google has Android by the balls but I’m so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it’s less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.