Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by goodpoint on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:17PM (#27346215)

Mobian provides tenths of thousands of packages through the Debian repositories.

The amount of spyware and trackers allowed into Debian in the first place is very close to zero.

Also it provides firejail. There is no need for flatpak.

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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by Seirdy on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:23AM (#27350966)

I agree that sandboxing should be decoupled from the distribution platform. Unfortunately, normal users aren't going to use bubblewrap or firejail directly until better GUI wrappers are made.

I also think that sandboxing is still a worthwhile pursuit for many FLOSS packages, since many programs--from moddable games to web browsers--run untrusted code. It also mitigates damage done by some forms of user and developer error (can't accidentally wipe a homedir if you can't access it).

It's similar to the rationale for not logging in as root unless necessary.

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