• Jalapeño Popper@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Google is overreaching, yet again. That’s the gist of it. They want to be a monopoly. Better to get out now, than to wait until they’re so engrained in our lives that they become a shadow government. Our best short-term fix is to break up the company like we did to AT&T. Our best long-term fix is to erraticate money and corporate influence from politics entirely.

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        2 months ago

        Better to get out now

        And again I ask, and go where? Your choices for mobile OSs are:

        1. Google
        2. Apple

        Choose Google and there’s no way around this issue. Choose Apple and you’ve locked yourself into an even more closed ecosystem.

        Than to wait until they’re so engrained in our lives that they become a shadow government

        Far too late for that, I’m afraid…

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          2 months ago

          There are more options, you just have to look. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, /e/OS… Android is not synonymous with Google. Android is open source. All the OSs I’ve listed are based off of Android, and are open source. Google has their own version of Android, which is closed source. But it’s just another OS based off of AOSP.

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            2 months ago

            GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, /e/OS

            These are all various forks of #1, and thus subject to the same issue.