Either (or both) of the two games by this developer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8857752720402747582

There’s like 100-200+ individual contributors to each of the apps. Practically impossible for everyone to agree to relicense especially considering the community reaction to the sale.

Another option would be to build in on a VPS, especially because a lot of them will give free credits and bill by the hour

Why do you say that? Unless they completely rewrite the app from scratch it is not even possible to have a closed-source version of the app. That’s what the GPLv3 does.

AFAIK the code is all GPLv3 so they won’t be able to close-source it.

I was talking about immediately switching. There is enough time to build the apps from source for yourself before they upload their shittified version.

doubly weird suggestion for someone coming from iPhone for the first time

All the code is GPLv3 so it will remain FOSS. There’s no need to immediately switch to other apps. You can optionally fork then build the apps for yourself.

If the photos go to a private directory but you are now rooted you should be able to directly access that directory and copy the files out. This is assuming that they are stored as regular files in that directory instead of being solely in the sqlite db. Does that work?

Ah I see. My bad! That looks much more reasonable, some cool features.

Link for browser? You’re the one that says you’re using the app Privacy Browser!

If you mean about the 8% APY thing you can find it like so:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coincircle

Everyone’s debating the merits of WebView but I find a browser made by CoinBase, Inc who operates a crypto platform advertising 8% APY to be way more dubious than the battle-tested Chromium browser engine.

I don’t believe any Samsung device has fully open source firmware. I assume you mean software seeing as you mention LineageOS?

Maybe only tangentially related but I love MoonReader to read eBooks away from a computer. Of course, how productive this is comes down to which book you read. Even if I’m reading a programming book and I can’t write any code or follow along, I can still read ahead on the concepts and then come back to it on a computer and give my brain a better chance of absorbing the information.

when are you trying to be productive while carrying nothing but a phone? possibly just messaging people to organise things or find out information as you’re walking around the office?

Just go in and leave a 1 star review for constantly bugging you with review solicitations

I’m not sure what your comment has to do with mine because I wasn’t discussing anything in the article, simply replying to someone else’s comment.

To be clear I understand that the article was incorrect, and I had my suspicions when I first saw it too (which I posted in another comment).

My comment is in reference to Google Search’s general degradation of user experience and quality of search results over the many years. Sponsored results that are hard for the average people to notice are sponsored, and they take up half the screen. SEO spam, quora spam, specific searches returning general results, etc. There is still a wealth of organic and original content out there. I just never find it through search.

Most people don’t understand how bad Google has become. It’s like not noticing how tall you’ve grown until your grandmother points it out.

My interpretation was this + in terms of the actual “sponsored” results work by matching “kids clothing” with advertisers who match for that term, and Google “changing” it into “$brand_name kids clothing” which seems entirely obvious when spelling it out.

I haven’t used Google as my primary search engine for many years but occasionally I do run a search on it. While the quality of results is extremely low, I never noticed anything obvious like a generic search term only returning results for a specific brand + that search term like the original article implied.

It seemed like a giant misunderstanding of how it all works from the start but made for a great headline.

How does any of this fit into the reality that you can pay $1 per 1000 captchas for a real, actual human to solve them? It seems like so much effort is put into this cat&mouse narrative with bot makers, ignoring the reality that sometimes labour is actually much cheaper.