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Weekly discussion thread - discuss anything related to Android - 20 August 2024

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  • I read this and this alone must be an enough reason to avoid Google play

    • I felt like a right noobie when one of my colleagues said he'd got a Pixel tablet via the Play Store and asked him how he'd won it.

      Apparently I don't install and play shittons of games like them.

      £500 was tempting to look into it further but as you say, that news pissed me off because I now know my mum is gonna install some bullshit that one of those guys might have picked up on.

      • Reading this made me think about the amount of trackers your friend had in his phone during this process...

        • Yep yep I bought a family member a couple of those fancy GLi routers that come with AdGuard built in.

          It's scary what a household's tracked without it would look like, and they are none the wiser to the shit getting sinkholed to this day thankfully.

          I'm down to 10% bollocks via NextDNS

          and aim to bring it down further by dumping any apps/services that want to bum fugg me.

          • When I used to use Firefox forks on my mobile, ublock once blocked nearly 10k thing in a month or less ... this was such a surprise to me ...

      • That hardware giveaway thing is only available in couple of countries right now, US being one. Otherwise, one can be a Platinum member in other parts of the world and they would get nothing.

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