Nobody cares what the UK thinks. The company has no presence over there. Down with the British. :-)

Unclear if this would impact any app store that has no Texas or U.S. presence. Is Texas planning on blocking websites? It would be entertaining to see.

The people who pretend that they can keep politics out of their life are always the people who are benefiting from the current political system. Nobody else in the world is so ignorant.

Every cell phone manufacturer has some interest in diversifying the operating systems. Because Google develops Android and sells its own cell phones, it has an unfair market edge. And now Google is threatening to filter out apps that it doesn’t like which makes the risk even higher.

So we can be sure all of the other major manufacturers of Android phones have considered if they’d like to support other distributions.

I’m not saying the information about Fairphone is wrong, but you shouldn’t assume it’s all as bad as they made it out to be. You’re reading a marketing pitch from one group that works with one vendor saying why another vendor isn’t that good.

It’s interesting to see Intel pondering building walls around its garden. That’s the kind of thing they could do if they don’t plan to exist in 10 years. It might make a buck or two for their quarterly.

All of the examples are commercial products. The author doesn’t know or doesn’t realize that this is a capitalist problem. Of course, there is bloat in some open source projects. But nothing like what is described in those examples.

And I don’t think you can avoid that if you’re a capitalist. You make money by adding features that maybe nobody wants. And you need to keep doing something new. Maintenance doesn’t make you any money.

So this looks like AI plus capitalism.

The job market in the US? Trump explains that.

I used none of those and have only heard of a couple, despite using Android from the beginning. Sigh.

Right and then they might well lose the next antitrust suit for weaseling around. Judges know what this kind of behavior means, though who can say how they’ll react.

The timing is too perfect, the effects are too apparent.

And here, my friend, you forgot what OP was posting about. Let me refresh your memory. Built in advertising. They don’t like it. So … even if we ignore the dozens of non-Chromium non-Firefox based browsers on the market, like you did for no good reason, OP could still solve their problem by using one of these derivatives.

Facts and logic, together!

Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.

You’re not fucked if you have The Pirate Bay. :-)

Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.

Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.

No, it isn’t the whole point. The point is to curate our own news. And a separate question is how to browse the results. If you use two devices, you might want a server side solution. Maybe. There are many reasonable setups.

A secret list of who is approved and who is banned. Yeah, I understand anonymity is good, but the list won’t actually be secret, but pretending it’s secret will help hide Google’s censorship moves.

Ah hahahaha no. That’s not even close to true. Do we seriously need to mention the dozens of alternative web browsers out there?

Use Fennec on FDroid. While you can, lol.

Maybe I’m not understand what you’re asking. You want to build a list of feeds to follow, right? To avoid single point failure or censorship, right?

So stop asking for one link, and start telling us what topics you care about. There is no point in a non-custom list of RSS feeds. You need to start the process yourself.

It’s not ironic, is it? The creators of RSS knew exactly what they were trying to create, as did RSS users, and what the bad alternatives would be like. If you are new to the show, welcome!