Even @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml gives it backlash despite being a moderator of Lemmy's biggest privacy community. A quote here: "grapheneOS trolls are downvoting every single post and comment of mine, and committing vote manipulation on Lemmy. They are using 5-6 accounts." That was in response to downvotes on a comment posted in the c/WorldNews community, which is entirely unrelated to technology.

It seems to me that you might be confusing things: You say that people hate the OS but share a comment complaining about the community of users/fans, not about the OS.

I have never used GrapheneOS and cannot comment on the OS, but I have seen some users in different communities commenting that GrapheneOS is the only valid alternative OS and discrediting any other OS. It becomes tiring pretty fast.

It's removed from Elsevier's site, but still available on PubMed Central: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11026926/#

The worse part is, if I recall correctly, articles are stored in PubMed Central if they received public funding (to ensure public access), which means that this rubbish was paid with public funds.

This is nice, but at the same time the EU keeps pushing for a backdoor in encrypted messenger services, so remember we needed to keep pressuring our politicians into doing the right thing.

Heliboard is now also on the official F-Droid repository, people can choose any source!

Year One. I can't stand Jack Black nor Michael Cera after wasting 90 minutes of my life watching that trash.

Soundcore Q20 and Q30 have a physical button with no need for an app, I don't know if their newer models are still like this. The Q30 also have a proprietary app to configure some things (like EQ), however a big plus here is the existence of an open source app on IzzyOnDroid's repo that can also do this.

As opposed to...?

That's just saying "Batman Begins was released 18 years ago" with extra steps.

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So?

It is not. It used to be, but it got acquired by a third party company and became closed source and started tracking its users.

The good news is that the original developers of Maps.Me developed an Open Source fork of the original app: Organic Maps which is an excellent app that is actively developed by a team that listens to the users needs and is therefore constantly improving. I recommend everyone to check it out.

But the comment you're replying to is talking about day-to-day life. Not for most of us, but unfortunately some minorities are being targeted in some places, and the trend seems to be getting worse, not better, in the whole world.

Because it's the only browser not based on Google's Chromium rendering engine (Webview, WebKit? whatever). Using any other browser supports Google's monopoly over how we browse the internet and what we are allowed to see. No, fuck Google.

Edit: spelling

I love Organic Maps, it is clean, simple, and works for 95% of my needs. The rest of the times I resort to OsmAnd, which is heavier and more complicated but has many more options.

The house number search can be tricky with OpenStreetMap based apps, unfortunatey, but still better than using Google, in my opinion.

I used Magic Earth in the past, but it has some wrong information in my city (an important road is marked as closed and it calculates long detours) which is not coming from OpenStreetMap, so I personally don't trust it.

Honest question: is using those 3 addons better than sticking to just uBlock Origin?

I have read multiple times that the best is to just uBlock Origin and nothing else, since other addons are redundant and together will make your fingerprint easier to recognize.

Thanks

And that's September 27. No need to replicate the article's clickbait title.

Oh my god. So much wrong to unpack here... where to start?

1. Don't compare Firefox to Google: one is a browser, the other is a company. Either Firefox vs. Google Chrome or Mozilla vs. Google
2. "Chromium is from Google, but it is also FOSS". Firefox is also FOSS. The big difference is that Google pushes the development of Chromium and finally decides what features are added or removed: if your browser is based on Chromium, Google is making the important decisions on the browsing engine. This is not the case on Firefox-based browsers. Period. I guess you might have read about Google's new idea: "Web Environment Integrity", even Vivaldi thinks it's a very bad idea, calling it "a threat to the open web (that) should be pushed back".
3. By using a Chromium based browser you are giving more power to Google. Google's browsing engine keeps gaining more and more market share. This gives Google the power to push "web standards" that are harmful to the open web, but since most browsers use Google's engine (like Vivaldi), most websites will adapt to Google's backwards standards. If you care for the open web and open standards, I really recommend to stay away from any Chromium-based browser. Doesn't need to be Firefox-based, but unfortunately there doesn't seems to be any alternative nowadays. It would be great to have other browsing engines to chose from.
4. Yes, technically, one could take Chromium's source code and strip it of problematic features like "Web Environment Integrity". But doing this every time a new version is released is cumbersome and not efficient: no one will do that.
5. If you carefully read my comment, I didn't specifically recommend Firefox (which is not bad option, in my opinion), but "a Firefox based browser". Same as Vivaldi is based on Chromium; Librewolf, Mull, Fennec... are based on Firefox, and are, in my opinion, better alternatives.
6. I know that Google is the main sponsor of Mozilla, yes. Mozilla gets money to develop Firefox, Thunderbird and other projects, and in turn Firefox comes with Google as its default browsing engine. Just change it or, as I said, use a Firefox based browser, those usually come with a different default search engine. On top of this, the existence of Firefox is a good excuse for Google to avoid accusations of monopoly in the browser market (something that the existence of Vivaldi doesn't avoid), so Google also wins there. we know that.
7. There are Google devs working on Firefox. OK, what are they doing? Are they influencing the browsing engine? Are they pushing harmful features like "Web Environment Integrity"? If any of those bad ideas are pushed, are they accepted? Again, Vivaldi uses a browsing engine designed by Google and they don't have a say in how that browsing engine is designed: the influence of Google is bigger.
8. "Every visit to Mozilla sends data to..." I didn't ask you to visit Mozilla. Just don't visit their website? And anyway, I just tried https://www.mozilla.org/ and uBlock Origin reports that it connected to just 1 domain (mozilla.org). No 3rd party scripts nor 3rd party frames loaded). Where are your claims coming from?

Vivaldi is based on Google's Chromium. If you want a Google alternative try a Firefox based browser.

Well, that probably depends greatly on the device you are using. There's dozens of Android smartphones out there.

With this said, OsmAnd updated their rendering engine last year to use OpenGL, so the way each phone and OS handles OpenGL will have a great impact too. Of course considering that you have your Android OsmAnd configured to use the Version 2 rendering engine (which uses OpenGL), and not Version 1.