I’m not talking about “now”; I’m talking about the future. Enshittification is inevitable in proprietary software.

Free-software licenses provide risk mitigation against different legal threats or behaviors that are seen as potentially harmful by developers:

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They added AI kill-switch (will come in v148)

actually I’m using CoMaps (an OrganicMaps fork I switched because OrganicMaps had some bad decisions e.g:promoting KAYAK links)

I use Firefox bro 🦊

I guess too much because think like you have 1000 videos each video is ~500 mb (also you’ll need to store 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p versions) let’s say 1 GB storage for each video, total storage need: 1TB just for one channel it’s ok but there would be like 10k channel at least

1 TB * 10000 = 20 TB * 500 = 500 hard disk with 20 TB

let’s say each one is $350 total $175,000 (and this is hard disk I thing you’re not going to use hard disks)

(and this is just storage I don’t know about traffic costs)

This is very good idea but we’d need domains for that

I haven’t used Google Maps for four months. OpenStreetMap has been enough for me. I don’t need reviews, photos, or driving instructions. Also, the constant use of navigation apps is atrophying our mental mapping skills.

do they expect from me to throw my phone away becuase it’s old? hardware is working great >5 years but they limit the software and of course I will pass that limit

it’s not that hard to do if a company don’t accept/respect your choice then you shouldn’t accept them

edit: typo

this could be great for popular content

I use a custom ROM (idk if this is the right word). I don’t have Google Services or any Google apps. My previous banking app didn’t accept custom ROMs, so I just canceled that and switched to one that does accept them. Now my banking app works great and I have no problems on my phone.

Ecosia is OK, but if you use Vivaldi (I’m guessing it’s Chromium) you will give power to Google. If we want to fight Google, there are three main areas.

1 - The most important is search (fortunately they suck and it’s easy to change).

2 - The second most important is Chromium (there is only one alternative, Firefox - I don’t count Safari because it’s for Apple devices). Firefox has Manifest V2; if we lose this, we lose great power.

3 - The third most important is YouTube. I think this is the hardest one because maintaining a video-sharing platform is very expensive, and it’s not something that can live just with donations.

The updated F-Droid Basic is great, it’s modern and it

• UI rewritten from scratch with Kotlin compose
• improved search, also searching in descriptions and translations
• easier to discover new apps, also highlighting the most downloaded ones
• installation approval before downloading
• multiple updates/downloads at the same time
• notifying user of issues with apps (e.g. signing key changed)
• optional Material You color theme
• improved filtering of lists source

This was the real reason for me to ditch the whole Google

I may compromise privacy

but I’d die for FREEDOM

F-Droid (main repo + izzy’s repo) is enough for 70-80% of app needs and their quality is very good (in play store there is millions app but most off them is scam and trash)

Google is a fucking monopoly. (Please do not use any Google product. If you care about freedom, there are tons of alternatives for most products.)

Start with:

switch to DuckDuckGo search or Brave Search

switch to Firefox on your phone and use uBlock Origin (not the weak lite version, but the full Origin version)

Good job you’ve done 80% of the work. You can continue to de-Google

btw

This is why GNU GPL is very importand.

Here the GNU GPL comes to the rescue. The programmer shows the boss that this proprietary software product would be copyright infringement, and the boss realizes that he has only two choices: release the new code as free software, or not at all. Almost always he lets the programmer do as he intended all along, and the code goes into the next release. ref

maybe Google, but Microslop and Amazon;

What happened to: “Google ❤️ open source”

this is just 5% of microslop