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Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] rauba_code@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sony Xperia 5 II

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] rauba_code@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Turned off Google Play Services and Google Play Store since the purchase of a new smartphone & set up F-Droid. Everything just works with much less storage space used (for some reason most proprietary apps from Play store usually come together with ~200 MB of bloatware). I tried to flash a custom ROM, as Sony provides instructions for that, but the build is failing, and I don't want to sacrifice the proprietary Sony image-enhancing algorithms. So I'm just sticking with the Google Android but no Play Services option.

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[–] rauba_code@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

IMO, what is good for open-source web solutions, is that, if someone doesn't like the vanilla frontend, one can write a new community-based frontend as a web, desktop or mobile solution, like Whalebird. It greatly expands user's choice and it is a good selling point but goes unnoticed.

Regarding new features, it is a matter of the communitations' protocols (ActivityPub, etc.) New features should comply with the specification and not introduce platform-specific 'spin-offs' as they would threaten the maintainability of the protocol and interoperability between platforms and in the long way ruin the whole fediverse. However, I have not read the specification of ActivityPub and what it can do. Maybe I have to try it first because it looks very promising.