I really hope this gets a proper foss “for you” algo. Personalized content and people discovery features are lacking on the fediverse.

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Why not just disable the Ubuntu pro ads in the mean time?

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What about Google Play Services? A pre-installed Swiss army knife of a system app with proprietary code and apps relying on it as a dependency seems to check the box.

I’m only on the fediverse but I miss algorithms. Recommended accounts (which to be fair exists on a corner of Mastodon), similar accounts to one you just followed, custom home feed, suggested posts, etc. Discoverability sucks on fedi and the lack of interest from devs for some sort of private FOSS implementation is disappointing.

Loops was like let’s have a “For You” algo early this year but even that seems to be a dead idea.

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Capitalism baby. Gotta cannibalize, monopolize, and enshittifize for maximum profits.

giggles in F-Droid

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It hurts to think about the timelines that could have been.

I wish you could slap a custom rom on whatever phone you want and it Just Works™ like you can slap linux on any PC, but instead we get apps that potentially don’t work, locked bootloaders, push notifications tied to Google Play Services, and whatever else. You can put Lineage on the EU version of my phone but not the US version because fuck you. I hate how corpo centric phones have become. Like Google shouldn’t be allowed to hijack my entire screen for an ad or an app update. The entire modern definition of “sideloading” is BS, apps have access by default to things that they really don’t need, and why do I need to use ADB to purge your pre-installed bloatware ffs

Not cool.

The less people spoof and the more people use Firefox + Linux, the less of a need there will be to spoof at all.

I just won’t use websites that won’t work with a Firefox + Linux user agent in the same way I won’t use a website that blocks ublock. I’m just not going to give Chrome or Windows a stat boost, even with Librewolf where I unspoofed the UA.

With Linux usage at an all time high, I’m itching for the year of the Linux desktop.

That “economic growth” is for the benefit of capital owners at the expense of everyone and everything else. I’m so done with capitalism.

Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that’s selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.

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Typical megacorp cycle.

Step 1 introduce privacy invasive feature

Step 2 spend years getting all the data they need

Step 3 get a slap on the wrist for a fraction of what they made and will make from it

Step 4 profit and repeat

Same as every other corp. A combination of every data point they can get their hands on to build a “consumer” profile on you.

It’s that last point, “Inferences”, that you should focus on.

The McDonalds app explicitly stated they will measure your intelligence. Needless to say, I deleted my account and uninstalled.