This sounds egregious. I don’t really have any knowledge on the subject, but to play the devil’s advocate, could it be possible that the train was bricked because while it can technically still run, it might have some things broken that could lead to hazardous consequences? Again, I have no knowledge on this, I would love if someone who knows more about trains could shed light on this.
Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?
Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.
Time to poison their data, I guess.
Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.
Is GrapheneOS affected?
Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.
I feel like common knowledge of all the shit big tech companies have pulled throughout their history is sufficient justification for giving massive fines.
Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.
Imagine banning books, at all. Sure doesn’t sound horrificly authoritarian to me /s
As it very well should be. Fuck Google.
well, that’s the centralised implementation, which i also don’t like. iirc there’s a decentralised implementation where, instead of tracking your location and sending it to a central server, each device would have a uuid. whenever you come near someone, both of your devices would just swap uuids and take note of them, and if either of you catches covid, they can just open that list of collected uuids and use that to notify the people who came into contact with them. imo not only is this more privacy-friendly, but it saves infrastructure costs from not having to host centralised servers.
right, this would be cool if it’s self hostable. i wouldn’t hold my breath though, knowing microsoft.
Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?