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Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by crinkly »

zevon wrote: post #290
crinkly wrote: post #239

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Wake me up when someone makes a better Reminders, Calendar and Photos app on Android... I'm using AdGuard for blocking ads in Safari. Works fine. I do have a GrapheneOS pixel 7a as well but I'd rather not let Google near my shit.

I can relate to not wanting any of the tech giants near my shit but may I ask what your Google concerns are on GrapheneOS? I also have an iPhone as well as a GrapheneOS phone. They are different but I'm quite happy with those alternatives to the apps you mentioned: Etar as a calendar frontend app. DAVx5 for syncing CalDAV and CardDAV (so calendar data, contacts and optionally also tasks). I manage tasks within my not…

I've tried most of that. It's really nowhere near any of the basic Apple stuff.

I have no issues with GrapheneOS just stock android.

Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by zevon »

crinkly wrote: post #351
zevon wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can relate to not wanting any of the tech giants near my shit but may I ask what your Google concerns are on GrapheneOS? I also have an iPhone as well as a GrapheneOS phone. They are different but I'm quite happy with those alternatives to the apps you mentioned: Etar as a calendar frontend app. DAVx5 for syncing CalDAV and CardDAV (so calendar data, contacts and optionally also tasks). I manage tasks within my not…

I've tried most of that. It's really nowhere near any of the basic Apple stuff. I have no issues with GrapheneOS just stock android.

Interesting. Can I ask if you use Apple's cloud services? If so, I understand. I don't use those, even on Apple devices, so to me, the whole setup is similarly annoying on both platforms with maybe a very slight edge towards the iPhone because it has most things I need out of the box. Other than that, I really don't think I miss anything on the "basic stuff" front on my Pixel compared to my iPhone (I use them both daily, with the former being my personal phone and the latter the job-issued one).

I've been doing the dual-driving iPhones and Android devices for a long time and times were definitely worse, in my opinion. The last thing I remember really annoying me on the regular was the lack of AirDrop but with alternatives like LocalSend and KDE connect, that's fixed as well.

Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by not_your_mentat »

duffyjp wrote: post #201

Everybody is talking about Chrome, but I tell ya what I have that disabled on my Android in favor of Firefox. Firefox on mobile with full-fat uBlock Origin is the closest thing to parity with desktop web access you can get. I don't just block ads, I block elements on sites I don't care about with :has-text RegEx rules. You can't do that on Chrome even on desktop anymore. I'm this close to swapping to the Android as m…

I spent years laughing at other people’s autocorrect fails until I switched from Android. The iOS keyboard experience is unspeakably bad. There’s a point every day where I think, “maybe I’ll just sell the iPhone and get another Pixel, despite Google’s creep factor.”

Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by crinkly »

zevon wrote: post #352
crinkly wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried most of that. It's really nowhere near any of the basic Apple stuff. I have no issues with GrapheneOS just stock android.

Interesting. Can I ask if you use Apple's cloud services? If so, I understand. I don't use those, even on Apple devices, so to me, the whole setup is similarly annoying on both platforms with maybe a very slight edge towards the iPhone because it has most things I need out of the box. Other than that, I really don't think I miss anything on the "basic stuff" front on my Pixel compared to my iPhone (I use them both da…

I use Apple's cloud services yes. And I have ADP turned on. It just works.

(I have offline backups of everything of course)

Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by frankvdwaal »

nuker wrote: post #215
frankvdwaal wrote: post #196

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What you want is not relevant, because you have no choice. Apple depriving you of that choice may not inconvenience you, but you are still being deprived of that freedom in the first place. I suspect 100% of iPhone users are in the same boat.

> What you want is not relevant, because you have no choice. You got this backwards. I chose Apple because of the choices they made and it suited me.

Electing a dictator because you like their policies does not change the fact that you end up in a dictatorship.

Likewise, having voted for a corporation that takes away freedoms does not make your opinion relevant: you are still not the one in control, and neither is anyone else who bought in.

Re: Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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Post by createaccount99 »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #350
createaccount99 wrote: post #342

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uBo has a filter list for blocking out cookie popups, why not use that instead?

I have the Easylist one enabled, is there a more reliable one? It doesn't catch them all, especially more niche sites that do more custom stuff to prevent you using the site until you interact with the notice. e.g. screen overlay, prevent scrolling using css rules.

I have the 3 default "annoyances" listed enabled, ublock, easylist, adguard. I rarely see cookie popups. Notably, youtube's cookie popup still appears, but probably there's a reason for it. So, you're right, however for me it's good enough.
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