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With the recent changes to how Google is doing things with Android, is it even worth it anymore? Should I just accept whatever version of Android comes with whatever phone or are custom ROMs still worth it? Assuming they still exist after all of this, idk what's going on.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 21 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

Uhm, what's the alternative? I don't want my phone to send my location 24/7 to Google or Samsung, whom I talk to and what websites I visit, maybe every single keystroke if the keyboard does weird things for machine learning or backing up word lists in the cloud... I want an operating system that has all of this disabled per default. And as far as I know that's some custom ROMs and there is no other alternative.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

whom I talk to and what websites I visit, maybe every single keystroke if the keyboard does weird things for machine learning or backing up word lists in the cloud...

None of this has anything to do with custom ROMs vs stock Android. These are all problems at the application and settings level and can be solved without changing the operating system.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Idk, can you easily replace the Location Services? The captive portal checker? GCM with a different push service, or the built-in Webview with a better version, and have the permission system and the firewall of the operating system prevent proprietary apps from having too much access and phoning home, unless they're designed to allow it? ...I mean sure, you can replace the default keyboard without much effort. But I thought all of the other things were impossible on a stock ROM and then you don't even have things like storage scopes and so on?

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