Didn’t this use to be an opt-in setting?
No. It’s the life blood of Google’s tracking ethos so it was always opt out on google’s phones. It’s so important to google that they’ll reset these permissions to “enabled” for all apps on system updates, so you won’t notice it until way later.
At the very least there’s less “you should be supporting my sides’ genocide and it’s your fault my country is ‘openly’ evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well” on lemmy.
“Genocide as a Service”
Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.
GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too
might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk
This is why we need an alternative opensource mobile operating systems and fast. Big Tech is essentially a psyop by the US for surveillance.
Your phone number, emails, logins, each have unique identifiers and even if you use a “private” app like signal, they have your number to link it to multiple other unique attributes embedded by Google, Apple, and Microsoft to create a tracking profile on you.
And no matter how opensource or privacy oriented, the companies they tell you they are, there will be some closed source implementation for plausible deniability. like the signal server, apple “privacy” or some shit they have you believe.
It’s like hollywood whitewashing USAs atrocities and the whole world applauding it, but now Big Tech is onboard too. And the world still hasn’t learned a thing.
I don’t know why the other commenter tried to link to it on the main repo.
Probably sharing from the fdroid app itself. It tends to link to its own repo with package name, even if they are from a different repo.
If I recommend some software to someone, most normies I know would directly go on to youtube and check some guy using and reviewing a software. The “official website” wouldn’t even cross their mind.
In this day and age if a random user really wants something, they have a miriad of options to see what they’re about to use. Forums, Youtube, blog posts and so on.
If a user doesn’t even bother a bare , they’re better off not downloading random executables from the internet.
The website isn’t end all, be all of how users find a software demos. You seem to think a single website is enough for users to make their choices these days. It isn’t the 90s.
I was gonna buy the foundation game, so I checked out the pirated version (fitgirl repack) first. Seems like it doesn’t run quite as well on my laptop. Had to play in low settings to be bearable.
saved some money, ig. There’s always next sale.
because they’re rich and don’t want to alienate any portion of people that make them more rich? Also they aren’t even slightly inconvenienced by the changes in policy.
Artists reciprocating the feelings of the people is a thing of the past.