Hi everyone, Since the beginning, we’ve used Magic Earth as our default navigation app. Recently, it became a paid app. More importantly, since it was never open source, it no longer aligns with our core value of prioritizing open source software for preinstalled apps. As a result, we’ll be switching to an open source alternative in our next release. We’ve created a poll with potential replacements — please vote and share your thoughts, including any pros and cons you think are worth mentioni...
I’m a lobotomy but I’m trying to figure out how to decouple. I wouldn’t classify privacy behavior as being some sort of purity scale, the way you seem to be. I still use proprietary apps, not because I want to, but because I necessarily have to due to a myriad of personal reasons where the time commitment to switch is larger than the current amount of free time I want to invest in it. It’s that simple.
I understand that privacy is an angering issue, it is for me too, but its better to redirect that hatred towards the corporations and systems that want to remove privacy protections instead of a niche group of people that took one step in a set of many in their journey for their data privacy.
Then switch to Foss apps first, switch to the degoogled OS second
If you just install a degoogled Rom, you are going to have more problems then if you just switch to Foss apps. And since you yourself say that you don’t have time, it would of course be Easier to do it the other way around
Also, you are gonna have an extremely bad time if one of those stops working randomly, since MicroG has its problems too.
That’s how I did it at least, I switched out everything on my stock pixel, and only once I knew there are only less than 3 apps I needed, that I for sure can’t switch out, that didn’t use Play Integrity, I switched. It saved me a lot of headache
I’m a lobotomy but I’m trying to figure out how to decouple. I wouldn’t classify privacy behavior as being some sort of purity scale, the way you seem to be. I still use proprietary apps, not because I want to, but because I necessarily have to due to a myriad of personal reasons where the time commitment to switch is larger than the current amount of free time I want to invest in it. It’s that simple.
I understand that privacy is an angering issue, it is for me too, but its better to redirect that hatred towards the corporations and systems that want to remove privacy protections instead of a niche group of people that took one step in a set of many in their journey for their data privacy.
Then switch to Foss apps first, switch to the degoogled OS second
If you just install a degoogled Rom, you are going to have more problems then if you just switch to Foss apps. And since you yourself say that you don’t have time, it would of course be Easier to do it the other way around
Also, you are gonna have an extremely bad time if one of those stops working randomly, since MicroG has its problems too.
That’s how I did it at least, I switched out everything on my stock pixel, and only once I knew there are only less than 3 apps I needed, that I for sure can’t switch out, that didn’t use Play Integrity, I switched. It saved me a lot of headache