Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
percent@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I genuinely appreciate the cause, but to sign this, I have to provide PII, agree to their terms of service and privacy policy, and get automatically opted-in to their mailing list that I’ll have to unsubscribe from later.
So to petition against this shitty tech stuff, I have to go through this other shitty tech stuff. It sucks how normalized this all has become.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
here it makes at least some sense to verify that each person voted once. the mail list stuff is of course to much and should be optional from the beginning.
percent@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Anyone know if this affects GrapheneOS users? I can install GrapheneOS like 50x faster than it would take to understand what I’m legally binding myself to by signing the petition.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
custom OS shouldn’t be effected by it. I’ll probably change soon as well.
anyway, that is rather independent on the petition. a petition is usually not for your own short term benefit, rather for the common good, or outreach of the general problem. so doing either is for different reasons, both reasonable