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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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 and app stores 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Tempfixes are good, independence is better

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

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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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Try Ad-Away

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Just use obtainium

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Android has always had support for sideloading

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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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This comment right here folks!

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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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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.

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In the EU only. Fuck Apple.

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Yes, fuck apple. But also fuck all politicians who are not as stringent with legislature as the EU.

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We need to push for more countries to regulate the tyranny of the app store.

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