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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (15 children)

Tried to restart my fairly new Pixel phone a couple days ago by holding down the power button, but instead of showing the Power menu it prompted me to ask the Digital Assistant something. Excuse me? I don't remember enabling that. Every other phone I've ever had, holding down the power button has always been the way to power down or restart. I had to search Settings to find how to configure the power button to control the power. Or course maybe I could have asked the Digital Assistant - but fuck that.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)
[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Graphene is the only one that gets rid of webview right?

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What do you mean by webview? If you mean the entirety of webview then no ROMs do that AFAIK. android would be broken without it. If you mean replace Google's webview with their own version, I'm pretty sure all the ROMs I listed there do it. I didnt fact check it though so feel free to prove me wrong

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

The second one, it appears you're correct

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