Comment on Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14’s “ransomware” bug

• 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.

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  • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can purchase a non Google phone and put graphene OS on it…

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But the problem is not AOSP, but Google? This reference and forking could be done to any code or math out there, why is it somehow “not ok” only when AOSP comes into play? I personally cannot think of anything that would be a specific halting factor exclusively because it’s AOSP. If your issue is with Google, then find a trustworthy fork that you like. You definitely ain’t alone in hating Google, especially compared to the people developing these alternate OS’s.

        All that to say, why are you “flipping it on me” to “prove they no longer pull code from AOSP”, when that wasn’t even the target to hit, or the question.

        If your issue is with Google, take issue with Google. Likewise, if your issue is somehow “literally everything Google has ever touched, even if they have no part in it today, or ever again.” Then I got nothing. If you’re that horny on main to burn Google to the ground, start writing your own mobile phone OS I guess, I simply don’t see any other way you’re going to hit that mark.

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• 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…

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