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  • Not yet, but as long as google is in charge, they would keep enshitifying it gradually (hence boiling the pot/frog).

    Quoting https://keepandroidopen.org/ “”" Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

    Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed. And as of today, it hasn’t shipped in any beta, preview, or canary build. It exists only as a blog post and some mockups.

    The principle being established: the company that made your device gets to decide, after you’ve bought it, what software you’re allowed to run. In software, this is called a “rug pull”; but at least you could always install competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a single unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist. “'”













  • I disagree. My opinion is that the technology did change. It just became more efficient at doing its job (killing people, surveillance, and mass propaganda).

    The internet was supposed to be a gateway of information, but now it’s the largest propaganda network. Free speech is censored by closed source algorithms and the entire internet infrastructure is controlled and owned by the 1%.

    We are more isolated compared to before, class solidarity is almost nonexistent, and its easier to identify people now vs before due to being interconnected real time.

    I can go more on and on but the tldr is that technology has made it easier and faster to crush dissent