That’s true! But I believe that you still need an account and, of course, the play store collects some data about the device its installed on/installing apps on. Depends on peoples threat/privacy model if they want that or not.

Either way, a sad day for open source that aurora is being blocked.

Explains the fetish for violence

It’s trying to close their system off further because there’s a lot more tracking that can be enabled if you use their official app

And JD Vance is a Catholic, but is obviously pandering to their death cult base

You have a deeply flawed understanding of who is leading the world in amount of war deaths and why.

No, it’s supposed to be a defensive alliance by definition (cough - Libya - cough). Not world police.

If he’s speaking in English then it’s propaganda for the world. All while he brings up religious references to genocide, funds and arms settlers, and tells the IDF to give them cover in hebrew.

How was western Sahara given to Morocco?

Lol

I think that’s what OP meant. That changing the veto rule with the EU is something that’s possible. Your prior comment made it seem like the whole EU wouldn’t exist

Who gets the big countries to stop killing the small countries?

Can someone please stop these Stalin paintings being sent to my house! All I said was universal healthcare is cheaper than private healthcare!!

Afd gaining traction, Spain’s rightwing keeps attacking and pulling fabricated judicial cases, Italy is blundering towards fascism with Nazi salutes done publicly, Marie le Pen is gaining heavily in the polls in France…

Are you sure fascists aren’t very much a part of Europe? Because to think it’s all external means that Europe will never figure out how to solve it’s Nazi problem.

I don’t know man. Just checked a used Motorola RAZR from last year and it costs 600$, which is on par with the pixel price reduction. And I think the RAZR is one of the models that will have GOS

I’m a bit confused with your own words

People who are security-minded for the most part just want a device to handle daily tasks, etc. Not all the bells whistles of an expensive high-end phone.

Buying a used and old Pixel (as old as 7) will be an option for many years since GOS will continue to support.

My confusion is that you argue against flagship phone (and we’ll have to see how true the assumption is on cost and if it will even be flagship) while also saying that people won’t buy it anyways because they prefer the cheaper older used phones.

Edit: I do want to add, I’m not sure why people assume it will be only on a flagship model. Most forums mention that GOS would be applicable to 3 models: the Signature, Razr Fold and Razr Ultra models (all with varying costs and some comparable to the newest Pixel).

How would money be involved?

It’s not like GOS is in a position to force device manufacturers to open the bootloader and have strengthened hardware, let alone make phone prices accessible. The best they can do is kindly ask a manufacturer to do so and hope that they agree (which Motorola have technology-wise).

And if it’s a money issue for people, then buying the newest pixel phone is still not cheap (~1k+). And most privacy advocates recommend buying the phone used and with cash so it’s not associated with your bank details.

I’d like to read more on this topic, but the writer doesn’t cite a lot of their statements. And I’d rather not take info simply at face value

Whoever thinks that anything involving the US is the world’s “stabilizing democracy bloc” is to be dismissed outright and ridiculed.

Or go the accelerationist route and wait on the 100% evil guy radicalizing a lot more people to bring about the revolution.

Have you heard of the haavara agreement?