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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] Techmaster@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's almost like Google wants me to trade my android phone in on an iphone.

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'll still be using a Chromium based browser. Best bet is to switch to Firefox.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safari isn't Chromium based. Chromium's engine is forked from Safari.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Which itself was forked from KHTML according to wikipedia at least

[–] markon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They'll succeed if they keep it up. My Pixel is the buggiest phone I've ever had anyway. I hate a lot of the weird little iPhone restrictions but at this point Android is getting irritating. It should be best on the Pixel but it's not. All this BS trying to kill the open Internet is just a good reason to cut Google out, especially browser wise and device/OS.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Just use a Degoogled Android phone.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hey! Try using GrapheneOS! It's a degoogled version of Android! If I'm not mistaken it uses MicroG (google services, but private and open source) instead of google services! It's specifically made for Pixels! https://grapheneos.org/ (I never used it personally, as I do not own a pixel, but I've only heard good things about it.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Try Linux phone- Pine64 Its in early stages but supporting them is our best bet

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Go with a de-googled operating system for android

I wouldn't personally switch to any Apple device at all because of the Apple being so closed off