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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by leftcenterright on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:35PM (#34432691)
> Google just doesn't do this with OSS projects.

So, android being an open source project, how does one turn off these nefarious repeated connectivity checks (phoning home)?

Or how does one modify `/etc/hosts` like we do on Linux?

Why do we have to go all the way to root the device or use a different OS to achieve these?

- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by skybrian on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:40PM (#34433507)
Android has a lot of open source parts to it, but nearly all users are running a commercial version and it's not managed as an open source project, so I don't think it counts.

Developer tools are different.

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by leftcenterright on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:22AM (#34437606)
My comment was in response to "Google just doesn't do this with OSS projects."

Also the source code link I provided was to vanilla Android, not to a commercial version running on someone's phone.

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