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Pi-hole or alike. Works very well for me, although I'm experiencing some problems with it. I'm a bad system administrator, though.
does that work when you are away from home wifi? (not sure what all pi-hole does)
What ad blocking for Android to would recommend?
Chrome does do touch better, clicking things (like "x" buttons to close in page pop-ups) works better on Chrome, Mobile Firefox tends to switch to text select.
Well that's dumb.
"It appears that you are currently using Ad Blocking software. What are the consequences?"
The consequences include avoiding situations just like in the story.
When did Phys Org get into tech news? I thought they were just an unreliable source for science rumors.
Despite claims apple purposely obsoletes its phones, it actually has a FAR FAR better record of updating old phones (reasonably given hardware differences) which extends the life of old phones.
> Google already fixed at least one of the Android exploits used by "Agent Smith," nicknamed Janus, in 2017 but the fix hasn't made its way onto every Android phone. It's a potent reminder that millions of phones around the world are being used without the latest security measures. Because Samsung (or similar) or even more weirdly, Sprint (or similar) just doesn't fucking update our Android versions for months, or ev…
I've never understood this as a design decision -- why does Google allow companies to block updating of Android? Presumably the idea is 'block updates to force hardware sales'? I can't update my Honor, I think it's the service provider (the phone was on contract) who block the update, but it was easy to update (both Android and EMUI) using an app in the Google Play store to a full version higher, but whoever created…
They shouldn't be any more involved in what phone you use than your ISP gets to pick whether you use a Mac or PC.
Sure if you want to use a 15 year old phone you're going to need to find somebody who allows that (my guess: no-one) just like you won't find so many ISPs who offer 1200/75 dial-up mode for your original Apple Macintosh with acoustic coupler. But anybody with normal needs shouldn't need to care, just sell me "phone" (ie mobile Internet) service.
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I bought a new Android table from Samsung 3 years ago for more daughter - when bought it had a 2 year old version of Android on and enquiries from Samsung UK said it would not be updated. My daughter is still using it today, unupdated from 5 years ago. We tend to be an Apple household Edit - the Device, bought in September 2016 was a Samsung Galaxy TAB E 9.6 SM-T560 WI-FI - I will check the software level tonight.
Which device? That doesn't sound right. We're in a more or less identical situation, with Galaxy Tab S2's for the kids that we bought three years ago. And indeed, they're running comparatively ancient Android 7.0 images and will never see a version bump again. They do, however, continue to see security updates. And in particular they've been patched against the vulnerability in the linked article. I'd be very surpris…
The Device, bought in September 2016 was a Samsung Galaxy TAB E 9.6 SM-T560 WI-FI
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I bought a new Android table from Samsung 3 years ago for more daughter - when bought it had a 2 year old version of Android on and enquiries from Samsung UK said it would not be updated. My daughter is still using it today, unupdated from 5 years ago. We tend to be an Apple household Edit - the Device, bought in September 2016 was a Samsung Galaxy TAB E 9.6 SM-T560 WI-FI - I will check the software level tonight.
Which device? That doesn't sound right. We're in a more or less identical situation, with Galaxy Tab S2's for the kids that we bought three years ago. And indeed, they're running comparatively ancient Android 7.0 images and will never see a version bump again. They do, however, continue to see security updates. And in particular they've been patched against the vulnerability in the linked article. I'd be very surpris…
7.0 is ancient? 5.1, or rather 4.4 is ancient.
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better than ios updates making the phone unusable. happened to me on old ipod touch models, not even the battery thing.
> Not even the battery thing. That was an attempt at graceful degradation that wasn’t communicated well. The general belief was that having a phone that runs a bit more slowly, but consistently used it’s battery as the battery life naturally degrades is better than a phone suddenly dying with 40% battery remaining if the peak power draw exceeds what a several year old lithium ion battery can produce. I much prefer th…
That was nearly outright fraud which went swimmingly well. The big issue wasn't so much the unannouced throttling. It was that Apple knew that a lot of customers had battery issues but misled them (by denying the entire issue) so that they'll buy a new device. Instead, the debate turned on slightly more defencible for Apple.
Slightly more defencible, because while Apple _says_ that was done to counteract the battery issues, nobody knows whether iOS really checked battery state and didn't just throttle all older models indiscriminately. The latter would be rather convenient for the bottom line.
Whenever I read about Greenpeace attacking apple for their phones I laugh. The number of Android models, made with far more toxic materials, never updated and so obsoleted much earlier (check out secondary market for 4 year old phones to see this) is far higher and with a much bigger enviro impact than iphones. Despite claims apple purposely obsoletes its phones, it actually has a FAR FAR better record of updating ol…
Except they were caught purposely throttling older phones with those updates, not exactly what i'd call extending life.
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That’s the problem. Why should your carrier have any say so in updating your operating system? If I buy a computer from Best Buy, I don’t have to wait for them to push an update to Windows.
Because carriers have a tremendous fear of being simple data pipes.