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You have to wonder about the motivations of the company making the browser that makes it impossible to disable some of these things, and therefore makes real apps so much superior (like swipe to go back on safari - I have never ever swiped back intentionally in over 100000 swipe backs).
> I have never ever swiped back intentionally in over 100000 swipe backs Real question here, what are you trying to do when you "swipe back"?
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You have to wonder about the motivations of the company making the browser that makes it impossible to disable some of these things, and therefore makes real apps so much superior (like swipe to go back on safari - I have never ever swiped back intentionally in over 100000 swipe backs).
> I have never ever swiped back intentionally in over 100000 swipe backs Real question here, what are you trying to do when you "swipe back"?
Anyone know if GrapheneOS has protection against this?
Some apps like Obsidian needs permission to access every file on the device. It is surprising Obsidian isn't getting called out on that very much.
Personally I use it with Storage Scopes on GrapheneOS.
Perhaps crazy question: is it a good idea to have two phones now? One for making calls only, with as many apps as possible removed. And another phone for email, web surfing, photos, etc...? edit: Oops, I left out texting. Which phone for that?
The for all the smart stuff, Pixel 6 with GrapheneOS. You can confine various "classes" off apps to dedicated profiles, so they'll never know of each other, and you get a vastly improved security (multiple releases in the month) and significantly improved privacy.
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I, I, I. Empathy is a weakness. Lots of limitations for you to not accidentally do something, maybe there is a way to not accidentally do those things and also help people that need them.
No, not providing concrete examples is a weakness. You're awfully arrogant in making a judgement about my empathy... if you want to make this personal. Or maybe you can justify why people need to be able to select menu labels in the first place? That's not standard on any OS I've ever used, so it's up to the person who wants to change things to justify why. Maybe be less judgmental of people here on HN, and contribut…
At least in recent versions of Android there is that OCR (?) powered functionality to select text when you're in switch-app view.
"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year" To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?
I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru. Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online…
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How do you identify apps that you shouldn't trust? Sometimes trust is assumed only until evidence is given that trust shouldn't be given. Which makes no sense to me. Why was the initial trust so easily given? A solution is to not use third party apps but most people aren't going to go that route. The VM idea is a good option though.
> Why was the initial trust so easily given? Because this architecture predates the existence of the current privacy nightmare. In fact it predates the general availability of the internet. How could a program you would install from a floppy/compact disk bought on a store behave maliciously if you didn’t or barely had access to the internet ? And then it stayed like this because Windows is heavily marketed as being r…
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Blue tick/check = verified Twitter accounts, from when Twitter staff chose who to give the blue tick and only gave it to journalists, technologists, etc that the twitter staff wanted to amplify. Nowadays a blue check simply means you purchased premium, but we remember the original meaning. This is not an Indian thing. PIN codes = postal codes.
Yes, the interesting question is which PIN codes is the author hinting at and which week of the year and why. This is what I want to know. I think I can figure out the rest myself. But while we are at it: What is the significance of a cow trading app. Is it used by people who treat cows as sacred or the opposite?