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 capacity over the last decade.

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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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    this time around all it would allow was “disable”.

    This has been par for other OEM-flavored Android phones for years, unfortunately.

    Disable is alright, not that the phone itself isn’t a privacy nightmare in other ways.