The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available • Hacker News Board

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by smacktoward » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 2:21 AM UTC

iamaelephant wrote: post #43

derision wrote: post #3

The name of the operating system is actually "/e/"??? That's terrible..

This is one of the worst names possible, I'm astounded this made it into a finished product.

Tomorrow: “We’ve heard the community’s concerns, and are happy to announce that in order to address them we are rebranding the /e/ project.

Introducing PedOS!”

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by mkeedlinger » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 4:19 AM UTC

Seeing a lot of critical comments here. I get it, this isn't perfect, but let's not forget that this is part of a growing movement towards something better. That is to be commended.

Don't let perfect be an enemy of good.

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by dreamcompiler » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 4:31 AM UTC

I applaud the effort but I'm buying a Librem because I can google Librem.

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 4:36 AM UTC

dreamcompiler wrote: post #53

I applaud the effort but I'm buying a Librem because I can google Librem .

Not intuitive, but:

https://www.google.com/search?q='/e/'

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by sifar » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 5:59 AM UTC

csagan5 wrote: post #21

Bromite author here ( https://www.bromite.org ); I was contacted some time ago about the possibility to maintain a modified version of Bromite with a customised /e/ home page and list of search engines. Nothing particularly murky there, but after some Q/A I did not want to proceed with this type of cross-branding because fundamentally I do not want Bromite to be using or be affiliated with any cloud service and I con…

Genuine question, I have avoided chromium like a plague, why should I choose this over Firefox with equivalent plugins ?

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:36 AM UTC

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Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by Smithalicious » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:39 AM UTC

Me and my friends had a good laugh over this. You'd think that at the very least someone, at some point would've recognized "/e/" as following the grammar of 4chan board names, right? People are still at least vaguely aware of /b/ (and nowadays, /pol/), right...?

EDIT: Maybe they just googled it and assumed the name was free after finding nothing....

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by Smithalicious » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

krapp wrote: post #42

rsynnott wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m reluctant to google; what’s that mean?

hentai - pornographic manga and anime. "ecchi" is Japanese for the English letter "H", standing for "hentai", which means perverted or strange.

Specifically /e/ is the board for softcore images of that nature, while /h/ (hentai) is for hardcore images (and /d/ is, well...)

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by Smithalicious » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:44 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #54

dreamcompiler wrote: post #53

I applaud the effort but I'm buying a Librem because I can google Librem .

Not intuitive, but: https://www.google.com/search?q='/e/'

>1 (foot / e) / foot = 0.367879441

Thanks Google, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Post by tylerl » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:16 AM UTC

I see no reason reason to expect that this will fail to capture enough market share to justify maintaining it, and then stop providing updates, leaving its users with an insecure and unmaintained fork that offers no compelling benefit over it's better-maintained alternatives.

None at all.