#google will now #ban #vpn #apps in the #play #store if they #block #ads https://mezha.media/en/2022/08/31/google.. Just a reminder that you don't own your #android #phone , it is there just to serve #ads to you.
This list of #apps and #products #killed by #google is exactly why they cannot be #trusted https://killedbygoogle.com/ Imagine relying on them for something important!
#microsoft #windows finally #broke one of the #simplest #apps they #ship - #notepad https://blogs.windows.com/windows-inside.. #hackernews #comments are reporting that it can behave as slowly as 1 #fps and that #scrolling is #horrific https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294.. How on earth is it possible to break something so badly like this?
Very interesting to see which #messenger #apps the #fbi can #access or not: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2.. Some of these #services come out pretty well, such as #signal and #telegram ...
People #generating their own #covid #certificate #passes #passports due to bad #security practices: https://ctrsec.io/index.php/2021/09/29/w.. And this is why I *don't* personally #trust these #covid #apps , etc. They simply don't know what they are doing.
@barray on Tue Oct 05 01:56:19 UTC 2021 said: &e#cloudflare #report that due to the #requests from #apps , etc, trying to #access #facebook and making #requests to #dns #servers - DNS saw approximately 30x more #traffic ! https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021.. That's really quite something, I couldn't possibly imagine running a #service that deals with so much #traffic ! Sounds like hell.Ouch, due to #facebook #dns not #resolving - their #users were #ddosing their own #servers #recursively trying to #reconnect https://twitter.com/blazejkrajnak/status..
I've been telling people for some years now *not* to #buy #chinese #smartphones - they are most definitely #backdoored on request by #china 's #ccp https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0923.s.. We have already seen the result of this multiple times, with #chat #apps filtering #political #discussions and detecting #regions to run different #filters ...
Nice round-up by #gamey on #pinephone #compatible #phone #apps https://odysee.com/@gamey:c/best-pinepho.. Glad to see such great progress being enabled by #pine !
Cool to see the #linux #phone #apps #ecosystem being worked on under the name " #linuxphoneapps ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281.. Still early days, but it appears like this could be a #makeshift ecosystem for #crossplatform #apps that run on #linux phones.