Yea but hey you can modify Android and you can’t modify iOS so the OP is partially right

Open-source Android ROMs are but Chinese proprietary ones aren’t at all

Yes but 1. It’s not the default 2. It kills some privacy stuff afaik

Ungoogled Chromium doesn’t have extension store support by default

No advanced tracking mitigation by default maybe?

I love how no governments completely shut down Google for violating constitutional rights or citizens

1. When did you delete Telegram?

2. Is your phone degoogled?

Manual targeted identification is possible even if you use public WiFi + VPN + Tor with 100 nodes. It’s just a matter of user behavior analysis. Same goes with anything digital nowadays. You’re either protected only from automatic spyware (Google, Meta etc) or not protected at all. At least some entity you’re interacting with (whether it’s a website, a person, a company or whatever else) is going to have some sort of tracking to it unless there are no network devices and physical surveillance agents in the area. Finding someone isn’t hard. It sometimes can require irl interrogation though. At least that’s what I know. Even if something I said isn’t true, digital cryptocurrency transactions are still a little bit better than using a credit card (maybe unless you buy a fake entity but that’s still breakable). I don’t know any better alternatives (cash doesn’t count because it’s not digital)

It’s a nice technology that should exist as an alternative to personally identifyable and government-ID-connected transactions. It’s not perfect in any way though

I believe it can be a part of a system app (Core API, Android System etc)

I don’t think Samsung has the feature to disable it

Screenshots are taken using a different app (screenshot utility). Camera apps have nothing to do with it. Who is your phone’s manufacturer?

Just use a different homeserver

If they make disabling spyware illegal, I’ll do it anyways because human rights. If they decide to charge me for it, I’ll just consider it a violation of my freedoms

Yea I guess it’s a better choice

Why not to just break the antenna (or whatever it has) in half? It’s much simpler and shouldn’t cause damage to the chip itself

I think this should be legally prohibited. Also is it possible to physically disconnected the network modules so they can’t send anything?

1. Here where I live people after 50 don’t even know what the word “browser” means and of course they can’t spot fakes that well
2. As I understood from the post, she’s not much of a computer user. If it’s the case, the OS doesn’t matter because she isn’t used to any of them

I don’t think she understands how to define official/fake websites and that kind of stuff. That’s the thing. Linux will be a better choice here

Never heard of a timer or opening documents. Maybe it’s a new feature idk

Well yea that’s true. But viruses are still really hard to avoid on Windows

LTSC is usually in a grey legal area on personal desktop PCs

Automatic updates can also destroy her work in case she happens to fill an online form or edit a document without autosave. The active usage time thing is there but ehh you can’t set all 24 hours as no-reboot time unfortunately

Unfortunately that stripped down versions are very unsafe because of removed antivirus features and sometimes they even include malware. I don’t recommend that for a casual user who doesn’t know what safety on the internet is

I mean, if nobody uses the instance, you absolutely can delete it. Oh and the Lemmy devs should fix the deletion issues asap. It’s really not ok for quite a big social media to have them

As I said earlier, this idea is good too. Open push standards are generally the best for efficiency but they can become proprietary or die (usually after getting bought by a big tech company) and even if a fork emerges it may be difficult to switch to it since it’s an important component and 100% compatibility with the previous standard is not always possible. That’s the main problem with unification and monopolization. The open standards can run into severe issues and then everything may collapse. When apps control the notifications, such risk is almost completely mitigated. Even though the described scenario is generally unlike to happen, push notifications have always been very “interesting” for big tech which rises the concerns about the stability of open push standards. Fortunately it’s possible to make an app that can work in both push and standalone modes (e.g. Telegram) which is good I guess

Well here it’s a matter of personal preference. For me privacy is more important than battery life and I consider Firebase extremely immoral. It can be different for other people. And thank you for telling about Firefox

Well anything you upload to the Internet is very hard to delete. It’s just on Lemmy it’s more obvious. Anyways gtk admins can delete stuff

1. I’m not a very advanced Android programmer but I know it’s possible to make something like universal instructions and dependency lists (if you want unification which I personally don’t support). Linux has push notifications for years and on Android they work too if the app is running in the background. In my opinion the app should control the contact with its servers. Just make a daemon or something like that so the whole app doesn’t have to stay in memory. Yes it’s messy and battery life will be worse but monopolizing is always bad. Federating Firebase is a good idea too but I personally prefer the other method because it gives more flexibility
2. Video/music progress bar on Firefox for example

In my opinion there’s absolutely no point in sending notifications through Google. It can be done differently and in a much less overengineered way. Unification doesn’t make sense here. The additional features don’t work in half of the apps now anyways

BRUH push notifications with Firebase require everything going through a Google server? What in the deleted is that design?

Tbh I absolutely do not understand why they decided to collect any data for push notifications in the first place. But yea now nobody will fix it. Though I’m wondering if it’s only the proprietary part (Firebase or whatever the name is) or the system itself that collects data. I mean if I use a degoogled phone that doesn’t even have that proprietary part (means notifications from IMSes don’t work either), am I safe from this or not? And does the collected data go to Google or to the app’s developers?

And of course nobody is going to fix these vulnerabilities because the governments want to be able to view that data

I saw at least one serious video about it. It was in Russian though and it’s quite old. And maybe I saw one in English too. I don’t remember. But I do believe that the microphone usage for targeted ads is true (or at least used to be true) on phones with Google apps installed

Depends on the exact model but you’ll most likely need a special unlock code which you can’t get anymore unless you buy it on a questionable website. Huawei phones are not meant to be unlocked. Buy a used Xiaomi instead

Fairphone is not a regular phone. It’s a very expensive niche product. I meant only regular and modern phones

Apparently some people are worried about its security vulnerabilities and locked bootloader is a requirement for GrapheneOS

Because they are the only phones that allow relocking the bootloader with a custom ROM installed

And even if it does, the policy can change in the future and nobody will be able to fork and save it

Such feature should never be in a consumer IMS because it can be activated accidentally. If you want to let your users become relays, do it at least like the registration for Ubuntu Pro