Comment on Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14’s “ransomware” bug
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months agoGoogle is really the only reason I won’t consider Android for anything. Time and time again they’ve proven themselves to be untrustworthy. Sure, Apple may collect your data, but their entire existence isn’t about selling that data to advertisers. I wish there were more options.
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you heard of graphene OS? Because this decouples Google and you still have an android phone.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
So… buy a google product and install other software on it? That’s still supporting google. I can understand why someone would not want to do that.
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can purchase a non Google phone and put graphene OS on it…
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s still supporting Google and letting them dictate where technology goes. The same with using chrome, or anything chromium.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Lemmy loves google, but I’m with you. I don’t use any of their products or services. People here say, “why not just buy their product and use other software?”
That’s still buying their product. And their software still lies within the offshoots.
QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You may want to do some research. The first bit is uhhhh… plain incorrect. The chromium based things, sure, I guess that could be said despite it being an open source project and easily forked.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m gonna flip that around on you. Prove to me that LineageOS, an Android based operating system, no longer pulls in code from AOSP.
clegko@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The last time I tried to use a degoogled phone it was basically impossible. Authy isnt on any other store, updating apps was a pita, notifications didn’t work half the time because too many damn apps rely on Google’s push notification system…