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It makes sense for Google to comply with the law. It would be good for Google to act in good faith, instead of facilitating frivolous spam complaints and preventing their legal resolution through subversive threats to the victim businesses on their platforms.

Lisan al-Gaib!! /s

DMCA isn’t all that unreasonable, though. It’s Google’s implementation of their DMCA policy that fails everyone. The article explains this further, with how instead of adhering to the 14 day restoration requirement in the DMCA law, Google took 46 days to restore this app last time.

The legal remedy here is for the developer to sue Google alongside the false DMCA company. Unfortunately, Google’s response to this kind of thing is to usually ban the developer from Google servers, thereby cutting their future income.

TL;DR Google is the biggest cunt in all of this.

Aurora Store is good enough for most. It’s still on Google Play, but you’re not using the Google Play app and you can even pick which version and see an Exodus tracking report before you download.

Rather than finding the same app elsewhere, though, you should be looking for alternative apps on FDroid and the like. Unfortunately though FDroid is terrible for searching for apps, you just kind of have to “know” about the app you’re looking for first, somehow…

This is supported in AOSP now.

No it isn’t. GrapheneOS is directly based on AOSP, so it includes everything AOSP does. GOS devs have made it clear they want you to use gestures, and they only include the navbar at all because it’s still in AOSP.

Inverted navbar is in wide a range of other AOSP custom ROMs (including LineageOS, which could be confused with pure AOSP), because those developers chose to incorporate it. But it isn’t in AOSP by default.

This doesn’t seem like a mature thing to say just because you want to flip buttons and are annoyed that the privacy and security-focused project didn’t add a feature to flip buttons.

It’s an accurate take on their general attitude to polite requests on their github. And the reason the requests are so excessively polite is because people are treading on eggshells due to their diva reputation - albeit, this reputation is somewhat drowned out by their fandom.

It’s also not mature to downvote people just because you disagree with them.

And furthermore, the reason I use the navbar is because I want a force close long-press gesture on the back button, so I can more easily close apps and stop their background processes. To me, that’s a fairly important feature for privacy and security. That’s also likely a big reason Google pushed away from that, and to see GOS devs align themselves with Google in such a manner raises my eyebrow against them, at the very least.

Elements of it, perhaps, but things like the sandboxing are explicitly prohibited in other Android ROMs. Otherwise almost all custom ROMs would be using it, or some flavour of it.

other OSes

And this terminology kind of tells me you don’t really know the custom ROM scene.

What the hell are you talking about?? You’ve just made up this “ARM ecosystem” thing, when it never was a thing.

ARM design processors, then license those designs to other companies to build devices. There is no “ecosystem” because they don’t define the rest of the device.

The “ecosystem” you’re referring to is the overall phone itself, much of which is defined by Android and Google more than it is by ARM.

A retired MIT professor. That’s what “professor emeritus” means.

He gave an interview to a YouTuber in Russia because he’s retired and doesn’t have much else to do.

It’s open source, but the license agreement prohibits using it in other projects. You can do it for your own personal builds, but not any published builds.

Just because they have the same function in the OS doesn’t mean the hardware is the same. That’s where custom ROMs falter, with closed sourced hardware drivers.

The issue isn’t normalisation, it’s inaccessibility to understand the core functionality to drive the hardware.

I think you don’t really understand how hard it is to standardise everything. Just because IBM managed it in the 80s doesn’t mean it was easy.

You’re supporting diva devs selling out.

We don’t need GOS to do well. We need a fully open ecosystem for phone operating systems. GOS devs don’t let anyone incorporate their code.

They also refuse to provide basic functionality like inverted navbar buttons. Because they’re diva devs.

Lmfao 10 year service life is woefully short.

In terms of how they’re spending them, yes. Trump is wasting weapons so as to deplete US arsenals, but also to create demand for new weapons. More money for those dealing arms.

In terms of what you want to defend against, you should consider their potential success rate to be far more than 2%.

And that’s without needing to listen to the words of a lady from Texas who’s emigrated to Russia and interviewed a retired academic.

Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.

And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.