Ah, PC Gaming Wiki, what a fantastic resource. Made realize how many games in my libraries are actually DRM-free
So my fear of sharks has gotten better, and I don’t quite understand why.
Curious 🏳️⚧️
But anyhow, you’ve probably found me because you’ve seen one of my totally inconspicuous comments
I’m open to chat about these and other related things over on Matrix
Ah, PC Gaming Wiki, what a fantastic resource. Made realize how many games in my libraries are actually DRM-free
I’d love for some big regulatory body forcing them to word it better and more clearly.
I was wondering where that issue came from
I had one big problem with VLC, in that it could not figure out which of my monitors I wanted the video to run fullscreen on. That was infuriating to the point I switched to MPV, and I’m very happy with it
As much as I hate him, a large majority of the games that are given away on that platform are fully DRM-free, and that’s pretty damn cool
One of those times where it sounded perfectly correct in my head, whoops
Others have said all the important things, but I wanted to add that there are things that Android always tunnels through a VPN, like internet connectivity checks.
So even with Always-ON and Block Connections, this will still ignore a VPN
There exists a frontend called Proxitok, but I can’t comment on how well it works or what it can do. The LibRedirect addon for Firefox can redirect you to the instance of your choosing.
Great addon in general, do check it out if you don’t know it already.
Firefox (at least on Android), actually violates the GDPR for connecting to Adjust without user consent.
So no need to look further for any privacy shenanigans, this is unbelievably disappointing, coming from Mozilla.
That breaks anonymity, not privacy
Oh, we’ve been through this though. Which other platform will ever have the cash to be a real contender here?
It’s nice that the option exists, I didn’t know that. But I have to say, I’m still not a fan of the overall concept of bridges
Be so nice to notify your contacts about breaking e2ee then, will ya
Have you told your contacts, at least?
Many apps share some data right at the start of the app though, before the consent form even pops up.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Outlook did that
They do provide an apk outside of the Play Store, that uses a Web Socket for push notifications. Not he best way of going about it, but hey, it exists.
You’re hitting the nail directly on the head.
Not knowing what’s going on being a bad thing is precisely my whole point
Do whatever you want, but again, make sure your contacts can make an informed decision about it.
Like the other reply said, Lineage doesn’t do a whole lot in terms of degoogling. I quite enjoy DivestOS, it’s a project that takes Lineage as a base and strips out as much Google and proprietary code as possible.
In fact, it’s so Google-free that neither sandboxed Play Services nor MicroG are officially supported, though the latter can still be installed and used just fine, though with a few drawbacks.
Same as Lineage, it runs on more devices, but certain features like bootloader relocking depend on the phone.