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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles (www.heise.de)

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Opensource. I don't understand everything it does but that has to count for something.

What would be a better solution?

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

banning the thing. It's not bad because it's google, it's bad because it takes away our freedom of choosing whichever devices and operating systems we want

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chesterton's Fence...

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

i don't understand the reference. We don't want the fence built. The fence is not already there and we all have no idea of the reason it was put up. On the contrary, we don't want it up because we know the reason. This will not help security. This will help no one