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Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Re: Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Post by spacebanana7 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #13

At this point the access points and the global data and surveillance system is too complicated and interconnected to dis-intermediate the access point and the network itself That is to say you cannot even connect to IP addresses unless you’re already part of the global whitelist for APs Try yourself. Get a VPN and then connect from certain regions and to won’t get very far and you’ll be slooooow You’ll say, oh, that’…

It all depends what your privacy threat model is.

There are very few organisations capable of identifying the human user behind a Mullvad connection with a VM.

If you're worried about local law enforcement or advertisers it's probably enough.

Re: Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Post by afavour »

rs999gti wrote: post #16
afavour wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because European governments are passing/have passed regulations forcing big tech companies to open up their platforms. (it’s also taking funding from the EU, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re forced to cater only to EU citizens but the combination of these two factors means it makes sense to)

> passed regulations forcing big tech companies More Euro governance, bleh.

That's a pretty reductive take. Is the European Court of Human Rights "More Euro governance, bleh"?

Re: Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Post by nh2 »

F-Droid still has some big tasks in order to be useable for the general public, when comparing it with e.g. Google Play Store.

For example, if you search it for "browser", Firefox will not show up because

A) It's called Fennec

B) The F-Droid search seems to be exact infix search, and Fennec's title is "Fennec F-Droid -- Browse the web", in which "Browser" does not appear, only "browse". So it doesn't find it.

In general, the search has no clue what a "browser" is, and cannot use it for ranking, so in practice you need to scroll a lot in F-Droid until you find what you seek.

Re: Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Post by izacus »

glenstein wrote: post #20
izacus wrote: post #17

I can't figure out what "it" actually is. This blog post reads like something AI generated - what exactly are they talking about?

Decentralized mobile app distribution for Android. For my part I feel perfectly clear on what the "it" is but I'm a little unclear on how it's in a different from what F-Droid already does.

But if you open the linked page, it has bunch of projects that aren't app distribution - /e/OS, some 5G edge VPN thing, etc.

Re: Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Post by glenstein »

c-fe wrote: post #15

I wish them success ... but with a website that looks like this I doubt their engineering efforts. https://mobifree.org (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TITC9bN )

I fully support the values being expressed put the ratio of talk to action on the website is not great.

It looks like a website from 2007 for a custom fork of a Ubuntu distribution.

Again, I think the initiative, the funding, the rollout of technologies is the important thing and I'm perfectly fine with there being an aspect of public communication that gives it the kind of visibility that bureaucrats need so that it matches their own personal mental model of what a project is. So I at the end of the day those things, rather than the website, are what's important, but I could have hoped for a better first impression for sure.

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