Some are required in order to approve purchases or to access customer service on case a fraud warning prevents a transaction from going through the first time or if you just need some savings money transferred to your checking in order to make a purchase which you might use a mobile app or call customer service to do rather than having to go home and come back to the store. There are several reasons to need to access your money when you are outside of the house. The things that require the app authentication vary by bank, but some are going to be urgent enough that it’s going to risk purchases getting rejected if you don’t have the app with you at all times.

Don’t blame the people being exploited and tell them to carry and keep multiple devices charged when you probably wouldn’t want to have to do that either.

I hope this leads to the death of Androud and the rise of something more open to replace it. There was a huge market for it when Android came out in competition with Apple’s closed model, but now that Google is closing up Android, let’s hope alternatives get some attention. Unfortunately, alternatives will mean no tap to pay, no RCS, etc., for a long time, since Apple, Google, et al., turned these things as proprietary as possible, but I’d still like a decent alternative to get enough power to eventually change those things.

Problem isn’t the hosting, it’s the content licensing. It’s difficult to get a legal copy of the content that you can actually possess. Without that, doesn’t matter if you are streaming the content through self-hosted servers or playing it locally. It’s the content itself that is the real issue. It’s often just not “sold” only “licensed” or “rented”.

No. At least not in the way most people expect.

It does block some tracking and ads that Chrome alone allows or explicitly adds. But it simply shifts that tracking to Brave. The idea was that you’d still get the benefits of that tracking by giving all of your data to Brave instead. I honestly never was convinced by this considering your data is still being sold, just by a different company so it doesn’t sound much better to me. Supposedly, according to them, Brave is more trustworthy and gives you more control over what they track and sell, but I don’t trust that business model. There’s no real incentive for them to do what they said they would.

Right, but not all have fixed that. I still see lots of cases where I have to turn off several options individually. Though these could be sites outside of the EU jurisdiction, so they just don’t care, or sites that make enough money off of the tracking data, that the fines would be insignificant even if the EU were to get around to fining them.

And again the comment stands that it’s not the law, but the implementations that are bad. The law requires it to be simple, but that’s not what was implemented.

Problem is not the law, but that the companies implemented it in as annoying of a way as possible to get people pissed off about the law and force it to be dropped, or for what actually happened which is that it’s too much work to not opt-in to the cookies which essentially makes it opt-out not in.

And the idea to remove the requirements for “simple statistics” or whatever terminology they use will just get abused by using other illicit tracking tech to link the cookies to uniquely identify a person anyway. So it will effectively make the popups unnecessary in any circumstances and still allow tracking for marketing and surveillance.

Depends on what exactly it’s tracking. Is it tracking downloads from the Play Store. Installs based on a tracker embedded in the app once installed, or logins through the app. You’ll likely have to ask the friend to check the terms of the sponsorship to determine that.

It’s become a pretty standard practice on Apple, Samsung, and Google devices as well as many other Android manufacturers to enable data sharing by default in the US. Especially the last few administrations want as much data as possible about the people, and in the US pretty much all of the companies share this kind of data pretty freely without requiring any judicial oversight since the supreme court has been corrupted. And the current administration HSS basically cut all investigation into any corporations that are friendly to them, so there’s no essentially no risk in collecting, leaking, or selling this data, so why bother making it opt-in. And recently, it’s explicitly risky to not collect and share as much data as possible with the government.

This is what I use. I mostly just have the DNS filter turned on to allow for blocking similar to what my pihole does at home, bit allows me to have it when I’m outside of the house, too. But it has lots of other capabilities like a firewall, proxying through Wiegaurd or Tor, anti-censorship features, etc. It does use your device’s VPN connection but it creates a local VPN just to force routing all apps through it and then if you want an additional external VPN you use the proxying, but that’s optional.

But the DNS-only option doesn’t drain the battery like a full filter/firewall may, so that’s one reason I only use it for that. And I use GrapheneOS, so apps are easier to control at the OS level than standard Android, do it’s not as necessary for me anyway.

Yeah, forgejo will give you many of the features of GitHub. Not the proprietary ones like the Actions Marketplace of course, but a lot of equivalent features. It’s lightweight enough though that even if you never use it for anything beyond git, creating pull requests, and some basic CI, it’s not going to require much power to run it.

Do you need the public to have access to it? That would be the only reason for federation that I could think of. That’s not available quite yet.

I self-host forgejo, it’s one of the easiest systems I self-host.

But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don’t need anything beyond that.

I’m just talking pure cost to manufacture for each. The cost of the hardware is higher: faster CPU, faster GPU, additional RAM, additional storage, higher end cameras, etc. That is where the cost of the phone comes from, so you can’t compare cost of a Fair Phone to this one any more than you can compare the cost of a Pixel 9 to the Pixel 9a. Both have basically the same software, warranty, parts availability, etc., but the 9a was about half the price of the 9 because the “a” series is a lower-end phone overall.

But the specs aren’t comparable. The Murena phone is a higher-end device than the Fairphone. And the Fairphone does get incentives/subsidies for the Android version which is one of a few reasons the Android version is cheaper than the version sold with /e/OS.

The cost of the device is not being subsidized by all of the bloatware installation income, selling of personal info, etc. I think a lot of people don’t realize that inflation really shot through the roof on the last decade and it’s only because products are subsidized by the sale of your data and other unethical practices that product prices didn’t go up. Food uses shrink-flation to hide inflation, tech uses selling your personal info.

Mostly because rehab is very profitable and data brokers want that kind of info in your advertising profile just like any other trait that is easy for their customers to exploit for profit.

Depends on what you want. You can have the application have an https certificate which could either be one issued my a globally trusted issuer or could just be a self issued certificate that caddy is configured to trust. And caddy can then add the globally trusted certificates from let’s encrypt or whatever. But that definitely requires extra steps. Just, how secure do you want to be?

I use forgejo on a raspberry pi.

It definitely depends on the application. But when you’re installing it, it should yell you if it’s installing other things. Otherwise you’ll have to look at the actual files it installed. There should ne documentation you can read on the site or st least it should have given you a readme to look at when you install it that has the info or links to a website with the info. There also should be a privacy policy in the application or on its site that describes what info it collects and tracks assuming this is from a reputable company. I’m just not familiar with it.

Don’t include the non-encoded part of the data or it will corrupt the decryption. The decoder can’t tell the difference between data that’s not encoded and data that is encoded since it’s all text.