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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:47AM (#45024345)
To be honest I don't see an easy path to escaping the walled garden in our interactions with big companies and governments (banking, traveling, mainstream social networks, etc.).

But at least we can build alternatives for interpersonal communication and other uses independent from big companies, like the late 90s-early 2000s Internet, and access that with free devices.

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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by CalRobert on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:30AM (#45024653)
Chat control will make this illegal.
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by anthk on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:56AM (#45024853)
If you want the whole commerce in the EU collapse and the CEO's wanting to really hurt and then kill Ursula von del Leyen and the associated lobbies, yeah sure. Let them suicide.
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by CalRobert on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:05PM (#45030803)
CEOs don't seem too bothered about security or the ability to use custom ROMs
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:24AM (#45027890)
> But at least we can build alternatives for interpersonal communication and other uses independent from big companies

We mostly can't. The most we can do is grow new big companies.

The internet was carefully reorganized so that it's impossible to do anything without money moving around.

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