archchan comments on ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 357 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Love that some megacorp can just make decisions like this that affects billions of people.

Really just feeling the fucking freedom. I hate everything.

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[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 14 points 6 months ago

And just manage to push it unilaterally too. This shit must be opposed.

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[+] jimmy90@lemmy.world -33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

this is a reply from further down that is actually correct:

This is being presented as more doom laden than is warranted. Ostensibly it is an effort to stop less technically able users from installing malware, certainly there will be unspoken ulterior motivations but such is the world we have allowed to grow around us. As far as overarching evil plans go this is quite a benign example.

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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Which is bullshit. You already had to enable external installs this is just them even farther encroaching on our ownership of our devices.

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[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

Get that boot out your mouth, you don't know where it's been.

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