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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;

https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/

Hopefully the EU Digital Markets Act is about to do exactly the opposite to iThings. Forcing Goggle to get with the times.

strypey,
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@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

Equally true of iThings.

strypey,
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@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;

https://postmarketos.org/
https://pureos.net/
https://ubports.com/

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