As Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in the future. They’re going to eventually ban adblockers for chromium. We need to quickly respond with alternatives to android, we must end this market consolidation.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Yeah. Google want to be a monopoly in any field they engage with. We as consumers don’t have any obligation to treat them as such.

    • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1010·
      4 months ago

      Won’t stop google from putting in ads in android apps

      • parpol@programming.dev
        151·
        4 months ago

        Pihole might solve that.

        Either way, though, I would love for linux phones to become valid alternatives to android.

        • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          We need a safe home for ReVanced and to give google less of an argument for removing as it would be ran on a Linux phone os

        • tibi@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          Netguard is also great. I set it to block all apps network access by default, and have a whitelist with apps that actually need it. It has significantly reduced the amount of ads and tracking significantly from my phone.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        Ads have been in Android apps for 15 years, you can generally block them all with Private DNS

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    Why are you using Chrome or a Chromium based browser. Change now, as the first step.

  • Rakenclaw@fedia.io
    19·
    4 months ago

    I run Ubuntu Touch on Google Pixel 3A XL and use Firefox and waydroid for android apps. Runs great even though it was released back in 2019. Governments must legislate all phone boot loaders, and service providers, be unlocked.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      4·
      4 months ago

      Is this something a normie could do? I run fedora on my laptop, but I never really get past anything more than basic GUI stuff. I mainly use it for writing papers for school and some web browsing. My phone, however, I use pretty heavily. It’s where I do 95+% of my web browsing, Lemmy, YouTube, streaming video, and some of my school stuff. Banking apps I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to use on that, but I could always use my bank through the browser, I’d imagine.

    • hellofriend@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      Just curious, but does Waydroid open the full OS environment like it does on desktop or does it just open apps in a container?

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    13·
    4 months ago

    Yup. We need to get away from Google, if we really want privacy. I’m glad I switched to a Linux desktop, but Google collects a crap load of info.

    • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      How long does it take to learn the programming language?

      Thank you for your service 🫡

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        17·
        4 months ago

        Thats the beauty of it. You dont need to code for any large project to be able to contribute. We need people test it on old phones (and new ones if they wish) and report back their findings in an organized fashion. We need people to tinker with the cameras so we can get them to work at some point, we need help with proper documentation, people to spread the word, you name it.

        But to answer your question, its not one language. Its linux, the base is C, then there are the desktop environments. Some is config files written in yaml, some is css. Most people dont comprehend how ginormous linux as a platform really is and how much potential there is to help.

        Check postmarketOS.org for opportunities to help out.

        • Landless2029@lemmy.world
          5·
          4 months ago

          Yeah I started doing git with bug testing.

          Most devs are happy to have someone file a competent bug report with: issue, environment specs, steps to replicate and screenshots/recordings.

          I’ve gone back and forth with devs testing things like game mods and android FOSS apps.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
            4·
            4 months ago

            Thats really awesome. Thanks for sharing your experience. We need more people to talk about it and show that its not only for some unknown elite to help with foss development.

        • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          I think I will write documentation and work on the functionality for the Pixel 3a xl

  • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I’m donating $1 a month to postmarketOS in my retaliation against Google

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    From what I’ve heard uBlock Origin Lite only barely falls short of the ad-blocking coverage that regular uBO offers, so there will still be options for Chrome users after this happens, not to mention the multitude of alternative browsers for Android.

    I still think that making Linux phones a viable alternative is very important, but it’s not significantly more important now than it was a month ago.

    • x00z@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      If Manifest 3 becomes mainstream, ad software developers will simply create stuff that bypasses it.

      Hypothetical example: there will be a 30 000 domain name blocking limit. Result: ad networks now have 30 001 domains.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      4 months ago

      I agree with you.

      Linux phones have always been important and some ad-blocking controversy (which I don’t know the details about) isn’t making it more important than before.

      Linux on desktop is now user friendly and I hope one day will reach that on phones too, even if for now it sounds way too complicated for me.

  • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml
    8·
    4 months ago

    I wish I could, but I’m broke as a badger and need to get a GrapheneOS phone first, moving onto getting a Linux phone second and using it to contribute towards development.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    What does this have to do with Android? 100% expected this to be about the Graphene issue, but instead it’s a simple “use Firefox or a fork.”

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    4 months ago

    What are the current viable choices for everyday use? I currently use a Pixel 6a with Graphene and I like it a lot as it does everything I want it to. It doesn’t work with my bank app but I don’t really care about that as I just use a browser when I need to access it.

    Ubuntu touch, postmarket and sailfish are the ones I have heard of but I don’t know what state they are in in terms of how usable they are on a day to day basis.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
      5·
      4 months ago

      I can only comment on postmarketOS as I‘m using that on a near daily basis. It is great and fund to use. It’s not end user ready yet though. Normal stuff works. Watching videos on firefox or a native app, music, phone, messages. All no problem. Just cameras are a problem atm, next to some quirks that need ironing out.

    • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 months ago

      Hey I’m curious. Is there a speciffic feature Graphene doesn’t support that your bank app requires? I’m in Australia, and am planning to use GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone, so I’m wondering if my bank app would be affected too.

      • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        As a matter of civil liberty and privacy, I suggest doing as much as you can via the web browser as opposed to app.

        So long as it’s going through the browser we have a degree of control over functionality and connectivity. Apps strip that away. Apps are you doing everything on their terms, while suffering an ad (their logo) on your home screen rent-free. You can pin browser bookmarks to home as well in Android.

        • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 months ago

          True. For some reason I was sure I remembered the mobile version of my banks website not working for actual banking, but it turns out it does, at least currently. Hopefully it stays that way and they don’t push too hard for the app. If they do drop it, I can always block app trackers with a DNS service like Mullvad or Quad9

  • glaber@lemm.ee
    3·
    4 months ago

    Currently running DivestOS on my second-hand fully degoogled Fairphone 3 and everything works pretty much perfectly (a couple minor things are glitchy but it’s only aesthetic). I get 80 % of my apps from F-Droid and the remaining from Aurora Store. Things like my bank apps also work after setting up microG

    • Zacryon@feddit.org
      2·
      4 months ago

      My bank won’t support unlocked phones with custom ROMs. For security reasons. But sure, online banking using any browser is no problem…

      Well, I’m going to ditch them soon anyway but I wonder whether it will be better with the next one.

      • glaber@lemm.ee
        2·
        4 months ago

        My banks technically don’t either but after some tinkering with the aforementioned microG they’re none the wiser :)

      • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        You can check your laptop/desktop for banking information twice a day as a compromise until your bank/credit union supports Linux phones.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      4 months ago

      It’s encouraging to see people making their banking apps on alternative OS, as that would be the main obstacle for me if I wasn’t able to pay with my phone nowadays .

  • tahoe@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 months ago

    Meanwhile, you’ve been able to use ad blockers on Safari for iOS for years and years. Once the EU forces Apple to let developers publish actual other browsers on the App Store (and not just reskinned Safari), iOS should be pretty great in terms of browsing liberty & comfort.