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I read somewhere a long time ago that chromium is a "look, but not touch" type of foss project. You can fork it, fix it, do whatever you want with the code, but on the main chromium repo they rarely accept PRs from random contributors

Here is an article from 2020, about the first non google employees getting some rights in the repo, before that all decisions was made by google employees: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-gets-web-allies-by-letting-outsiders-help-build-chromes-foundation/ This api was added in 2013

And the workaround for this issue is really simple, and it was recommended privacy wise for a long time: don't use chromium based browsers and don't visit google related sites, as much as you can.

This comes from hangout_services/thunk.js

I searched for hangout in the vanadium repo, no result, so it's not patched there either: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Simply noone ever looked and it's not documented. And the api is locked to work only on google domains so it wasn't usable to anyone to accidentally notice what's going on.

The code doesn't do anything on non-Google domains.

Luca says this - I'm inclined to agree:

This is interesting because it is a clear violation of the idea that browser vendors should not give preference to their websites over anyone elses.

Follow up question: How many other parts of the chromium codebase limited to work on (maybe other) specific domains?

Yes, e.g. rpi3b+ has gigabit ethernet, but it's only 300Mbit, because it's connected via usb2 internally. Something similar can be the culprit here as well.

No. It means they get the data from somewhere else, maybe from some carsharing app, or from some government db from car counting thingies mounted on traffic lights, etc. There are other sources to get traffic data ftom, but usually following users is more convenient and reliable

They wont tell us where they get it from, they only say it's not generated via this app. They are followimg someone, but not me.

No.

The only OpenStreetMap based navigation app with live traffic data is Magic Earth. It's not foss, but gratis.

They get the traffic data from some third party, not by following their users like gmaps. That is the reason live traffic is only available in just some countries: https://www.magicearth.com/feature-availablity/#hd_traffic

Firefox can remove it automatically if you use the "copy without tracking" option in the rightclick menu. It works on thr url bar and on any links on any websites not just on yt.

Can you open about:processes?

Your example with the buses is wrong. There is a standard called GTFS and public transport companies publish their fleet status and timetable according to this standard, Google just reads and displays this data. Nowadays you should see the same data in the official apps and gmaps. There are even foss solutions displaying the same thing like transportr.app

You can browse this data worldwide on https://www.transit.land

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

He says "powered by or funded by Google". Firefox depends on Google financially, most of the income of Mozilla comes from Google paying for being the default search engine.

They try to diversify their income (Firefox VPN, email alias service, etc.), but anything they try gets a huge backlash from the community, and still small compared to the the money from google.

I found they have a newsletter, that sounds like an acceptable middle ground, not good, not terrible.

RSS is not even enabled on the Newz page on the website.

Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth more than 2000 years ago with a stick and counting steps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

Never heard of Transsion before:

Transsion sells mobile phones in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. It operates mobile phone brands Tecno, Itel, and Infinix, as well as after-sales support service Carlcare and accessories brand Oraimo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsion

It says 4.4 to 8.4 versions are not vulnerable. A lot of old distro releases are on these versions, Debian 10, 11, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is not affected https://pkgs.org/download/openssh-server

Ram and sata cable faults have similar symptons as well.

I use this workflow, and used it on reddit as well. Here I have different accounts on different instances. Mobile apps lets you change between them easily. On desktop I just open them in a different tabs.

I use wallabag. There is paid hosted version, but you can install it on your server. You can tag, star and mark read/unread your bookmarks. There is a webapp, browser extensions, mobile apps for all platforms, and apps for ebook readers.

FFUpdater supports Android 5+: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/ You can install a lot of browsers from there, maybe one of them supports this phone: https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater

Also check slimsocial, it's a facebook client, supports Android 4.4+ and it lists arm7 support: https://f-droid.org/hu/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/

And new Chinese phones (Redmi, HMD, etc) are really cheap, they are good as a backup smartphone. I know it sounds terrible, but you can't really do anything with planned obsolescence. Our time is short on this planet, waiting for websites on old hardware simply doesn't worth it, you should spend this time on more important things.