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Comment Re: Defeating the point of side loading (Score 1) 64

Ahh, here is the link I was looking for:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidauthority.c...

Google is not killing AOSP, but they are making it much harder to support AOSP on Pixel devices.

I hope your move to Pixel works out for you, but it probably won't.

Comment Re: Defeating the point of side loading (Score 1) 64

I see now where you are going with that, but didn't I just read something about Google reducing code sharing? I'll have to look that up later, it's not convenient now.

There are also Moto phones with unlockable boot loaders, but it's not all of them. I'm on a non-unlockable one right now, sigh.

Comment Re: From the UK (Score 1) 36

The US and UK are both members of five eyes, an intelligence sharing coalition created to get around certain countries' laws against spying on their citizens by having other coalition members do it for them.

But wait, the US is altering the deal, and wants to stop that sharing.

That is what this is really about. They want to spy on us and not share the info with these former allies.

I'm not against stopping the information sharing, which was always really just a way to go around laws designed to protect citizens. But this is not for our benefit, it's for the purpose of punishing other nations by reducing international cooperation.

Comment Re: This is sideloading being locked. (Score 1) 64

I'm ok without those apps, not excited but I don't use them anyway. (I have used Uber about three times, but not in literally years.) My employer issued me a phone because they are not stupid enough to embrace the security nightmare that is BYOD, so my authenticator has a place to run.

I don't pretend it won't be inconvenient, but this is unacceptable.

Comment Re: Defeating the point of side loading (Score 2) 64

"I recent swapped out my wife's cheap Motorola for a Pixel precisely because I wanted to get us all on a platform where we have more control and where we can disable invasive AI and microphone monitoring that seems to be the latest fad in the mobile industry"

But that makes no sense. Google is one of the most invasive purveyors of that crap, and Moto/Lenovo only pushes Google's on you just as Google does, so what you've accomplished is spending more for a phone that will do exactly the same amount of unwanted AI spying.

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