Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”
Gimme Linux phone, I’m ready for it.
The Firefox Phone should’ve been a real contender. I just want a browser in my pocket that takes good pictures and plays podcasts.
Unfortunately Mozilla is going the enshittification route more and more. Or good in this case that the Firefox Phone did not take of.
Is there some good Chromium browser with hardware video decoder support and a working adblocker, that is not Brave? Or which Firefox fork is recommended?
I’m sticking with Gecko for sure. Trying out Waterfox over the weekend on desktop, and Fennec F-Droid on my phone.
cromite for chrome, and ironfox for firefox?
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too bad firefox is going through the way like google, they are updating thier privacy terms of usage.
Yep. I’m furious at Mozilla right now. But when the Firefox Phone was in development, they were one of the web’s heroes.
it says its only for LLM? as long as they dont try to expand the “privacy” in any case i download alternatives to the browsers anyways.
I’m mostly just frustrated that the best option has now become merely the lesser evil.
if there was something that could run android apps virtualized, I’d switch in a heartbeat
Waydroid?
To be clear, I haven’t used it at all and have no idea how well it works.
Tried it on my laptop. Doesn’t work at all
Bummer
I gave it a run on Ubuntu touch with a fair phone like 8 months ago… It was still pretty rough then.
I remember reading recently that it’s gotten better (haven’t tried myself so don’t hold me to it). I can say that Wayland in general has come a long way since I switched to Linux ~2 years ago
Do you mean sandboxed?
not necessarily… I mean If they run under the same VM, I’d be fine with that as well…but having a sandboxed wrapper would for sure be nice.
I just gave up and pre-ordered the Light Phone 3. Anytime I truly need a mobile app, I can just use an old iPhone and a WiFi connection.