i'm not defending apple here, but do keep in mind most android users have Samsung's or budget devices from Motorola, and they will also have all the bloat included with the carrier if theyre in the US as well. So they'll have Googles bloat, OEM bloat, and carrier bloat. G/OEM usually gives them 2 suites of apps that do the same exact thing (Samsung Internet and Chrome is the biggest example), and then they also have to deal with the carrier preloading shit on phones as well (I believe Verizon has been preloading the NFL app since like 2014.)
Signal used to be the best but they dropped SMS/MMS ages ago, and group texts are historically awful over SMS/MMS, especially when one or more users in that group have iMessage. I would either switch to Signal and get your friends to Switch, use Fossify Messages (very basic SMS/MMS client), or deal with the shithole that is the G app suite. I'm on signal personally, I only use SMS for verification codes at this point.
just FYI, its easier to audit a poor/middle class person because they dont pay 600 lawyers to play with where the money is for tax loopholes.
Unless youre a multimillionaire you'll probably end up regretting fudging anything unfortunately.
I think its strategic. Similar to the poem "first they came for X, and I did not speak because I was not X".
You deal with the lowest protected on the rung and move up. They dealt with non-citizens. Now they move to rural american citizens. He'll get to them if we give him enough time to.
???? what the fuck are you taking about?
You know there are other ways to stream music right?
Jellyfin, Gonic, Ampache. All selfhostable and able to use your own media. Theres also indie friendly websites like SoundCloud, BandCamp and (believe it or not) MySpace.
Are you really simping for spotify right now?
edit: ok guys I see it was sarcastic now. god forbid someone not understand tone over text on the internet
this is why I just be buying CDs, cassettes, vinyls and BandCamp/ whatever digital download platform the artist uses and putting it on Jellyfin. Can't buy from the artist directly? well, then we participate the computings oldest profession.
I'm glad to see the shitpost sub actually understand why this is a bad idea. I had some chud on c!android telling me that this was somehow a good thing.
I purchased several Onn. Android TV boxes before their bootloader got locked and installed FCast + Jellyfin. Those boxes got an update recently that causes their bootloader to be locker though so unless you find a reseller I'm not sure what your options are hardware wise.
Theres another fella who forked it making vistathemeplasma which also looks great, its linked the the aero repo. Both are extremely accurate for linux windows skins. Aero FTW
simply use 7gb to install google®️ drive™️ and purchase a Google®️ One™️ subscription ($24.99/mo) for 512GB of storage*
*We reserve the right to access the data you upload to our service at any time for any reason and share the information with our partners and law enforcement. We also reserve the right to delete your account at any time and still bill you
Some tools for the forsaken:
https://privacy.sexy/ https://github.com/builtbybel/Bloatynosy/releases https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Not FOSS: https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/
Someone's curated list I just found: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy