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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[-] disco@lemdro.id 3 points 2 weeks ago

Snapchat texted me a notification the other day

Haven't used Snapchat in years, wasn't installed and that setting wasn't even on when it was.

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