I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven't flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.
Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.
Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It's meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It's not geared towards daily use.
On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.
I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.
Didn't they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it's up for some debate but, if true, I'm not sure that's a thing we can turn off.
I have a theory that this is intentional design.
When products perform smoothly, you don't interact with them, they become invisible, & Uncle Googs needs you interacting with their products as much as possible.
Thanks to telemetry, Good Ol' Uncle Googs has millions of hours of behavioral patterns to sift through, provided by all those free Chromebooks for school districts across the US.
So Google know exactly what gets folks engaging with their phones &, I believe, intentionally cause frustration over seemingly simple tasks b/c many many people will forget what they were doing, fix the issue, then get distracted by entertainment apps, doom scrolling, etc.
Dark patterns & behavioral manipulation.
I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.
I'm glad you called me out on that. It's easy to misremember when we are just constantly bombarded w information.
Anyways, it would be a good compromise, imo.
Curious what Gog's actual hang up is, since the Steamdeck's picking up so much momentum.
I read it somewhere awhile ago. You're killing me asking for a source, goddamn.
EDIT: somewhat ironically, here's a Reddit thread where a developer says they are a part of the affiliate program, so, I don't know much funding that brings in. It sounds like a less formal arrangement than I was imagining:
Well, '.ml' doesn't exactly stand for "Mildly Liberal."
But unlike Reddit, you can block the entire .ml instance if you'd like.
In fact, if you don't get along with .ml, do yourself a favor & block the Hexbear instance if your home instance hasn't already.
Thank you, but I've been on Lemmy for about two years.
I was still contributing to Reddit because some of their more niche communities weren't really replicated anywhere else, but I'm done with that now!
~~Gog funds Heroic.~~
I actually think it's a fairly decent compromise (although I prefer Lutris), since Gog is clearly not interested in paying to maintain a Linux port.
EDIT: Wrong(ish)! See below.
Lol I've been here awhile, but, yes.
Thx, that's exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.