I got banned here for saying this but I'll continue to say it nevertheless. We are already in the Censorship Era. This is an Orwellian Nightmare. The quicker this is brought under control the better. The last thing we need is Corporate Overlords controlling what we say or do online. This includes Hacker News as well.
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
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Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#22Bookmarking this one for when my friends chide me for “still” using iOS.
On Android, it's still much easier to install apps from outside Google's app store (just change the "install unknown apps" setting, download the .apk file, and open it) than it is on iOS.
As a practical matter, though, only a very small number of people will ever do that. Being kicked out of the play store is almost always going to be a death sentence for the app.
Apple has earned plenty of criticism themselves, but I do appreciate that they curate the app store with humans.
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#23If there's a backlash, it will just be explained as an "oops," like when Firefox devs catch them doing stuff like this:
>https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-go...
>In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five times slower on competing browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozila Firefox. He went on to say that:
>>YouTube serves a Shadow DOM polyfill to Firefox and Edge that is, unsurprisingly, slower than Chrome's native implementation. On my laptop, initial page load takes 5 seconds with the polyfill vs 1 without. Subsequent page navigation perf is comparable.
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#24Opt out. No Google. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Amazon. You don't need them, you might even enjoy life more without them.
You can't change how they operate. But you can change how you operate.
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#25Bookmarking this one for when my friends chide me for “still” using iOS.
The difference is, good luck getting Element installed on iOS if Apple removes it from the app store.
On Android you just grab an APK or use F-Droid and it's a couple taps.
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#26If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market.
I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, and we end up with more viable small-device OS options.
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#27What is Element?
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#28Opt out. No Google. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Amazon. You don't need them, you might even enjoy life more without them. You can't change how they operate. But you can change how you operate.
> You don't need them, you might even enjoy life more without them.
So I should probably lower the quality of my life to make a statement that will have no impact on them at all?
>You can't change how they operate.
Sure you can, by petitioning your government to draft laws and so on.
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#29'Private company, they do what they want' gang arriving in 3, 2, 1..
Re: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
#30If there's a backlash, it will just be explained as an "oops," like when Firefox devs catch them doing stuff like this: > https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-go... >In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five tim…
I worked around this problem in Firefox by changing the browser useragent for the YouTube site to an older version # though the fix won't last forever.
I have become accustomed to using multiple browsers and OSes simply because of all the issues surrounding video playback.