I don’t agree. While you may give google some upfront money for hardware, when buying new. Installing a degoogled OS effectively removes that device from their claws. Since their revenue from hardware sales is much less than their real business which is data gathering/surveilance capitalism and advertisement network. In one year your data generates them roughly the amount of the retail price of a smartphone. So even buying a pixel to remove google, makes a dent on them.

Their hardware is atleast more secure and allows unlocking. Which is worth paying for and none other manufacturer even considers. That’s the only reason GOS is pixel only. And the reason I would give google some slack. Just a tiny bit of slack.

it’s gamed and rigged. there you go.

They only have to win once, we have to win everytime

They’d sell accounts with other people’s ID? Those will inevitably get leaked. So for example your ID will get leaked and used and you’ll be the one to face the consequences. This is not new at all.

op seems to think that pandemic response is tradition based, rather than science based.

tradition as like in 1919 where people were told to put a rag on the face, ritualistic hand washing etc, and rushed novel vaccines with bacteria. Everyone died anyway.

Yeah I picked up the history book

They turned authoritarian without batting an eye. Worldwide. That’s what they really showed themselves to be. Cancelled freedom and privacy, destroyed local business and handicapped the developing children of that time. And will continue to do these things.

And yes it was unnecessary. I know you want to read into this and say I was against “a pandemic response”, but not “that” pandemic response…

Seem it’s people calling it full blown ‘Nazi’ (?) - even to people trying to figure this out - and that’s that.

far away from you

So they used medieval techniques got it.

Well they didn’t, but concerning your teensy little pee brain of yours, could as well have.

I know they did the same in 1919, that’s barely 20th century. And an entire century of medical progress early.

Not even wikipedia says what fucking side is on and I’m somehow… whatever I’m going to leave you and your shitty opinions.

This is why I don’t like any people and none of their parties.

Years of uncompromised world class service. Then a person there has the audacity of having a political view (shocking!)

Now they suck and should be boycotted. This is how ingrate you look, we were lucky we even had mullvad in the first place.

chill. I’m definitely taking your word for it /s. If everything I don’t agree with is fascism, well that makes it easy huh?

For sure. Reddit doesn’t start “testing” it just for sport.

Where have I seen such worldwide concerted action among all governments and corporations. Ah yes, when China “leaked” a virus.

Did they save lives?

or

Did they put us in house arrest?

How do they work? Those tools actually delete system apps?

Use Vanadium. On android, any Firefox based is lacking either in the sandbox or fingerprinting mitigation, plus extentions make you more fingerprintable and can possibly track you. Even on desktop they’re behind. Chromium based is much more optimized and secure.

I saw on GrapheneOS forum Vanadium is the better option, with Brave a second alternative. Also tor browser on android is not officially from the tor project and suffers from firefox android implementation. Browsers are extremely complex, they’re made to run external code in the wild securely. Quite an endeavor.