6 months from now it’ll be relaunched, but businesses will only be able to “respond” via AI, and only if they pay for a Gemini subscription. A week later businesses will be posting the insane shit that the AI tells its customers.
The company that is programming the operating system is investing in a company that makes malware for said operating system. How they can’t be considered involved? Once they invested the $140 million, they would be less likely to consider that malware as such. They won’t block that malware with Google play protect, ignore the privacy issues that would lead to a ban on the play store, and so on.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t don’t see Apple investing even a dollar on a company that is making malware for iPhones
This isn’t a part of Google. Likely carriers will try to put it on phones you get through them especially mid-range devices. Also it can be disabled (and even uninstalled through shizuku or ADB or something)
If a phone comes with this pre installed, nobody would ever uninstall it. Or even realize that the annoying ads are coming from this app. They would just think “ads everywhere, android is shit, next phone is going to be an iPhone”.
Glance works to deliver recommendations to users like ads, news articles, and more on the lock screen.
How do I block it?
Glance will side with offering a subscription service where users can pay for “premium news” on their lock screens every month.
Oh, so just don’t pay for it, right?
Fortunately, you can disable Glance on the phone, but we found that the service would occasionally produce a full-screen prompt on the lock screen, encouraging you to re-enable the feature.
Oh, so more bloat using resources even when disabled.
Glance will seek to make a profit through the aforementioned subscription and if users interact with its “product of the day.”
Its literally just a venture to capture and advertise on every visible space possible.
It looks like I’ll be spending 2025 onward with Linux and a flip phone.
Any idea if they still sell well compared to the ad-free ones? Presumably if they were that successful we’d have seen other manufactures copying the idea before now, right?
We have. You can buy cheap-ass smartphones at Walmart, etc with ads baked into the OS. Lots of my folks are pretty broke living down in Louisiana and have them. If you need a phone cheap, say for example you can’t afford a real phone and you’re planning to sell some drugs, they’re some of the cheapest usable phones you can get.
you'd be surprised at how many people look for lowest price and fail to read even part of the rest of the item's page below the item title at the top.
kindle. check.
lowest price. check.
buy now.
click-click-done.
(oops. they just got a 'trial' to prime, too. that takes actual reading of pages to find and click-through the cancel process before the payments start)
This is something I’m unsure of. While I agree that there should be less obstacles to third party app stores, and sideloading, I’m not sure about taking warnings away is a wise choice. Especially when people are comfort and used to no warnings when using Google Play and other equivalents. Most just doesn’t do basic digital hygine. A better route is to bring down Google Play from its system app status and become a normal one, and warnings for everyone.
I agree, a reasonable amount of warnings is perfectly acceptable and dare I say even necessary.
I just went through a new phone process, which for me involves side loading a couple different apps, there was like 1 main warning to turn on side loading in general and then I had to allow individual apps to install other apps (Like Droid-ify, since it’s an app store it’s gotta be allowed to install other apps) and I wasn’t bugged again. A reasonable system IMO.
I work for the US government and Proton is blocked at the network level, so I can’t check my personal email at work. In that sense, the US has already “banned” it. In what other way could a government “ban” an email provider?
Honestly doing personal tasks on your works network is not a great idea. If anything use wireguard to route your traffic back to your home. (You can flash OpenWRT and set this up)
Well I guess it is up to you. If it violates your employers policy then don’t do it obviously but you can adjust your VPN to make it hard to differentiate between normal traffic and VPN traffic. It can work in China so it probably can work for you.
If your that concerned about your work don’t use your phone or at the very least don’t connect to WiFi
I’ve had corporate LANs that I couldn’t route around to my wireguard servers from even using netmakers turn server stuff which punches through most shitty lans.
That’s odd. I’m surprised they blocked it for you. I also work for the US federal government and I haven’t had any issues with using Proton at work. I wonder why the difference.
It was fine until a few weeks ago. We moved into a new building and something with the network changed. Concurrently we also have to connect via the VPN a different way than we used to. With all of those changes Proton went from not blocked to blocked.
The government’s move is in line with a recent policy that has targeted services with end-to-end encryption. A host of encrypted apps were blocked at the start of last year — including the likes of Threema, Element, Wickrme, and Safeswiss — and the government is going after WhatsApp to disable end-to-end encryption, although it isn’t clear how that would even work.
This is why GPG is still an important and valuable tool. You can use it on litteral anything and not relying on single point of failure. Paired with steganography no one will know the message even existed. Yet, not many are willing to learn nor support this anymore.
Edit: use of more conservative wording Edit 2: correct spelling
GPG is painful. No doubt. But with the pain it gains agility. Any single apps and protocols enables secure communication, being TLS, Tor, GPG or any one you listed, can draw attention. However, apps are more vulnerable. Their traffic pattern can be analysed and block individually while GPG is protocol agnostic. Look how China GFW had block many E2EE apps/protocols.
In today’s world, secure communication apps like SimpleX are more in flavor as it is way easier to use. I used them daily as my main communication method. But it’s also good to learn GPG as a backup when those apps fails.
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