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  • mindlessLump@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Definitely not humanity’s biggest problem. Chromium becoming the de facto browser creates a situation where one entity controls standards and influences how the web operates, impacting user choice and freedom, and reduces incentives for privacy and security updates.

    This already happened once with IE.

    I only use Firefox on desktop, but I doubt it will be a relevant choice much longer.

    Edit: wrt telemetry, I was referring to the Android operating system. They collect anything and everything on users and all nearby devices.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Android does not collect any telemetry, GApps does. Pure Android as developed by the AOSP is fully free and open-source software and does not communicate with any vendor’s services, which is why there are completely private Android distributions like LineageOS or e/OS. Android is NOT Google, it is developed and maintained by the Open Handset Alliance. That most people happen to run modified versions of it like Samsung’s Android flavour or that they happen to have GApps like Google Play Services installed is the actual problem.