Goggle's "Web Integrity" project has been widely condemned as a trojan horse for bringing DRM crippleware to the web. The battle against it has been won. But the war against Goggle's attempt to iThing-ize Android continues;
@Salty
> "iThings" but their operating system wasn't written by an ad company
> In the App Store itself, but not pervasively throughout your device
Moving the goalposts much? 😅
I use Android and I never see a single ad. Unlike on iThing, I can choose to use F-Droid instead of the built-in app store. So I don't need a Goggle account to use it. If I really wanted to, I could replace the default OS with a degGoggled one.
Nope, my very first reply was that Android is a whole operating system written by an ad company. Google controls it from top to bottom, and its only purpose is to collect your private data so they can push ads to you. Well done on your effort to never see a single ad on your Android device; that's a lot of work, and far from the typical experience.
Google's dropped the "don't be evil" motto years ago.
@Salty
> my very first reply was that Android is a whole operating system written by an ad company
... thus implying that Apple, which writes the iThing OS, is not an ad company. Which this reply is still implying, despite the previous reply which acknowledged that Apple very much is an ad company.
This is goalpost shifting.
> Well done on your effort to never see a single ad on your Android device; that's a lot of work, and far from the typical experience
@Salty
> Google's dropped the "don't be evil" motto years ago
No arguments here. But the fact remains that Android respects our freedoms in ways that iThings do not. For people using it that includes a choice of app store. For people developing apps for it that includes choice of license (iThings don't allow GPL-licensed apps).
For a mobile OS not written by an ad company, have look at;
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