Android
DROID DOES
Welcome to the droidymcdroidface-iest, Lemmyest (Lemmiest), test, bestest, phoniest, pluckiest, snarkiest, and spiciest Android community on Lemmy (Do not respond)! Here you can participate in amazing discussions and events relating to all things Android.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
1. All posts must be relevant to Android devices/operating system.
2. Posts cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
3. No spam, self promotion, or upvote farming. Sources engaging in these behavior will be added to the Blacklist.
4. Non-whitelisted bots will be banned.
5. Engage respectfully: Harassment, flamebaiting, bad faith engagement, or agenda posting will result in your posts being removed. Excessive violations will result in temporary or permanent ban, depending on severity.
6. Memes are not allowed to be posts, but are allowed in the comments.
7. Posts from clickbait sources are heavily discouraged. Please de-clickbait titles if it needs to be submitted.
8. Submission statements of any length composed of your own thoughts inside the post text field are mandatory for any microblog posts, and are optional but recommended for article/image/video posts.
Community Resources:
We are Android girls*,
In our Lemmy.world.
The back is plastic,
It's fantastic.
*Well, not just girls: people of all gender identities are welcomed here.
Our Partner Communities:
view the rest of the comments
I just officially downloaded it and will likely soon jump ship from DuckDuckGo.
Really the biggest thing for me will be not blinding my eyes due to a lack of dark mode outside of search results. (Thanks to using the dark reader add-on in Firefox)
You're jumping from duckduckgo? Where to & why? I ask as a fellow DDG user.
I think they meant the DDG android browser.
Oh, gotcha. Yeah, honestly mixing my browser & search engine has a bad smell to it, whether it's google, Microsoft or DDG providing them. I don't want to give anyone that level of end-to-end control.
yeah you're right. The DDG Android browser has been my default up until now
Yes, I remember hearing something about this.
I wonder if there's a way to federate a search engine. I wonder what that would even look like. Federating indices/results but allowing users to search from whatever instance they want? Maybe?
Maybe that's an okay use case for federation or maybe not, but clearly we need to move away from centralised search engines because they always get corrupted by greed.
I understand your concern, this is actually why I dropped Ecosia (because they got closer to Microsoft)
It's worth mentioning that DDG has since distanced themselves from Microsoft after the blow back, so while Ecosia got closer, DDG (AFAIK from the documentation I read) no longer has any partnerships in place. I don't get paid either way, so it doesn't matter to me but just FYI
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/
Seriously, darkreader is a lifesaver for someone like me who is light sensitive.