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Aaaaand there’s the enshittification, just like I expected.
Remember kids - 99% of the time, if it’s too good to be true…
There used to be Amazon versions of phones doing this like 10 years ago. They were a like 10-20% cheaper and with a lil Android knowledge you could permanently disable them over ADB and have a cheap usable phone
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We need to just start beating the shit out of marketing people. Just any time you meet someone and find out they’re involved in advertising, punch them in the mouth. Doesn’t matter if they’ve personally done anything to you. They’ve gone too far.
Excommunicado
We need more Linux phones
We desperately need a phone OS the user can modify at will, by design and not by rooting, and on mainstream hardware.
I know, the argument goes that the only reason phones are so reasonably priced is the upside of upsell for manufacturers. But phones are not “reasonably priced,” they are sold at a large profit and the upsell is just greed.
It is not important that you can “turn it off”, it is important that it is installed. Off doesn’t mean not running in the background, sucking up your personal information.
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or draining your battery.
Have already been since at least two years or so, although maybe on a slightly more limited scale.
The lower mid-range Motorola phone of my gf had a hard-to-disable active wallpaper app that displayed nice pictures, but had a prominent field leading directly to online ads when accidentally pressed (which happened a lot).
Also reactivated itself after each OS update.
Enshitification in progress…Phone manufacturers know where you touch your screen the most often and put their shittiest apps in that spot so you accidentally engage. It’s the only reason I open up Google’s AI, because I did it by accident.
Phone manufacturers know where you touch your screen the most
Except Apple as it seems. They tend to routinely put essential interactive elements in the top left corner or so, farthest away from my right thumb.
On the other hand, Iphones don’t have sneaky ads hidden in the system, so there’s that…
Unless it’s in the top right for no good reason.
And don’t get me started on the inconsistent ways to go back. Sometimes it’s a button at the top left or right, sometimes swipe from the left, sometimes swipe down, sometimes up. I’ll stick with my android and a dedicated button, thank you.
Lock screen ads are coming to all smartphones. Because you know that, once they get one group to accept it, they’re going to shove it onto everyone.
chuckles in GrapheneOS
You know the project will soon be dead after gpixels will lock their bootloaders? Just the way oneplus did, reel people and then enshittify
They’re making their own phone now. It’s not going to die, at least not in that way.
That’s not what’s happening. GOS has said they are partnering with an OEM, which means a yet-to-be-named manufacturer will ship their devices with GOS preinstalled.
But GOS has said things like this before with no outcome. So we will see what happens.
Look at what happens to Cyanogen when they did their own phone. Doing their own hardware doesn’t mean they well survive.
