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On my phone (I use Lineage), I have control of what app opens what link.
I mean a link inside Firefox. Search on google.com in Firefox for a YouTube video and click the result. It will open in Firefox, not the YouTube app.
I tried this for a while and I consider the experiment failed. No closed source means no Whatsapp, etc. Let's face reality, no-one is using XMPP ;) In the end I started the policy "Prefer open-source software on Android", which works pretty well: * Note taking using orgzly * Tasks using opentasks ( https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks ) * File Sync using Syncthing * Contacts, Calendar using davdroid & nextcloud * Firefo…
Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
I tried this for a while and I consider the experiment failed. No closed source means no Whatsapp, etc. Let's face reality, no-one is using XMPP ;) In the end I started the policy "Prefer open-source software on Android", which works pretty well: * Note taking using orgzly * Tasks using opentasks ( https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks ) * File Sync using Syncthing * Contacts, Calendar using davdroid & nextcloud * Firefo…
Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
Network effects are powerful.
90% of the objections here seem to be "I can't use Google's online services very easily without using Google Play", which is precisely why Google's spent the past few years piping as much of Android's runtime as possible through Google Play. The rest are mainly just that the main streaming and social media companies don't have open source clients.
If libre software fails to compete with a proprietary alternative in terms of features, it's reasonable to criticise the libre software. Similarly, if a proprietary service fails to compete with a libre alternative in terms of choice of how you use it, it's reasonable to criticise the proprietary service.
I tried this for a while and I consider the experiment failed. No closed source means no Whatsapp, etc. Let's face reality, no-one is using XMPP ;) In the end I started the policy "Prefer open-source software on Android", which works pretty well: * Note taking using orgzly * Tasks using opentasks ( https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks ) * File Sync using Syncthing * Contacts, Calendar using davdroid & nextcloud * Firefo…
Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
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I mean a link inside Firefox. Search on google.com in Firefox for a YouTube video and click the result. It will open in Firefox, not the YouTube app.
And playing it with youtube means you got the ads. No thanks. In fact, I convinced some people to use Firefox to watch youtube on Android precisely because of this: get rid of really annoying ads.
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Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
the trouble is to get your friends to use it. A vast portion of my daily communication runs over Whatsapp. A realistic migration would entail convincing 25+ people to switch apps. Network effects are powerful.
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the trouble is to get your friends to use it. A vast portion of my daily communication runs over Whatsapp. A realistic migration would entail convincing 25+ people to switch apps. Network effects are powerful.
Let them try Telegram's awesome desktop clients. It's quite a good argument for many as I hear lots of people complaining about WhatsApp's.