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Freedom ™️ finally came to China.
That sucks though. I hate that Android, which used to be the pride of nerds due to its customization options, is locking down more and more year after year.
Even if people don't care for their phones/tablets, ok, but the "trusted" default companies are all dogshit. Now google is implementing shit that seems like it will effectively eliminate custom roms in the next few years by making it impossible (or very hard anyway) to use apps that use their "security" shit.
I use android and ios (because I'm a freak) and it makes me sad to think that the only reason for using android at all (and I'm not trying to do a fanboy war. I literally use both OS) which is the ability to install basically whatever the fuck I want might be gone someday soon. This mostly matters day to day (and I suspect this is the REAL motivation here) in apps like modified YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Twitter etc. all for the purpose of removing annoying/no-one-asked features and, of course, the endless deluge of ads. I know "the end of Adblock!" fearmongering has been a constant for at least a decade now, and I'm sure longer, but as these corporations lock down operating systems and apps further and further we may actually be approaching that moment for real. It's very clearly in the interest of the corporations to do it, but obviously consumers hate it, so they've been slow boiling us and at this point maybe finally they're letting it boil. I suppose we'll see. Google still makes the Pixel series for now, but the changes with the trust system (I forget their name for it. Safetynet and all that shit) make loading custom roms possible but increasingly impractical. Just hate to see it.