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.

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Stop using Chrome? Firefox works with uBlock Origin just fine.

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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.

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One can use firefox or deviations.

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

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Tempfixes are good, independence is better

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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.

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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

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I have a pihole as a DHCP server. Easy does it.

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13 points

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

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2 points

Try Ad-Away

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34 points

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

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I’m using Librewolf, Firefox and Safari.

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Fun fact! That’s all just safari with a chrome or Firefox skin on top :)

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7 points

Where did they say they were using iOS?

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What the hell are you talking about safari uses webkit/jscore, chrome uses blink/v8, and mozilla uses their own engine and renderer

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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.

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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.

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It’s fairly straight forward. Just need to make sure your unlocked phone includes the bootloader being unlocked. There’s a list of supported devices for UT on this link. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

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

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It opens a full containerized android session.

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Does it suspend the Linux UI? Seems like unnecessary overhead to be running two DEs/launchers

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2 points

This comment right here folks!

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Isn’t Firefox an alternative? Works today.

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Google could remove FireFox from the PlayStore

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Not in the EU. I think they’d face antitrust problems in USA too.

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I think they’d get pushback from Samsung too

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I don’t get it from the PlayStore. Android is open source. If they ever go crazy lock down then we can run AOSP or variants.

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I don’t know if they legally can do that. Would be an antitrust violation.

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I dont know if they legally can but that has never stopped them do anything.

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Sideloading it or using a different app store would still be possible. Would Google remove the ability to do those things? Would a fork of AOSP not easily restore that functionality? Regardless, I’m all for more OS options for consumers.

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Android has always had support for sideloading

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Just use obtainium

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More importantly, mozilla is in google‘s pocket due to google being by far the largest financial contributor. Expect them to ruin firefox at some point. Also, the recent ad drama should have taught you that one lone competitor does not make a market.

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There’s also WebKit.

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