They really suckered us in good. A company that makes all it’s money selling ads and data making the hot new browser that blocks ads and smart phones you can control completely and customize however you want.
And then they were everywhere and decided to kill v2 and good ad blocking in their browser, and lock down their phone OS completely so no one can avoid giving them all of the data about all of the things all of the time.
We should have all started bailing the second they stopped letting people play music on youtube unless they had their screen on to see ads or paid money.
TBF they did provide competition to iOS at a critical time. Without Android we’d all be living in Apple’s walled garden right now. There hasn’t been any other significant effort to get another mobile OS underway in all these years, save for blips here and there like Microsoft’s aborted attempt, or Meego.
They really suckered us in good. A company that makes all it’s money selling ads and data making the hot new browser that blocks ads and smart phones you can control completely and customize however you want.
And then they were everywhere and decided to kill v2 and good ad blocking in their browser, and lock down their phone OS completely so no one can avoid giving them all of the data about all of the things all of the time.
We should have all started bailing the second they stopped letting people play music on youtube unless they had their screen on to see ads or paid money.
The ol bait and switch.
I’m ready for my Linux phone now.
TBF they did provide competition to iOS at a critical time. Without Android we’d all be living in Apple’s walled garden right now. There hasn’t been any other significant effort to get another mobile OS underway in all these years, save for blips here and there like Microsoft’s aborted attempt, or Meego.
Enshittification.