Google collects lots of data, which is used to curate content recommendations on services like Google Play and YouTube, as well as market ads to you based on your activity.
Source: How to Automatically Delete Your Google Data, and Why You Should
Category: Ethics
Ethics, Privacy
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Ethics
Have no limit
Ethics, Proprietary software, Software Libero
Android is NOT open source
Now I know I’ve done the-right-thing supporting Librem5. I knew that almost all phones comes with a proprietary OS, either the prison-ware iOS or proprietary derivative of Android. Yet I wasn’t aware that the situation is SO bad. Read this. Android is not open source – The Quantified VC – Medium
Privacy
Fastidiosissimo
Anche se sono online dal 1996 o giù di lì (chiedete a DuckDuckGo se non ci credete!) ho esitato molto ad iscrivermi a Facebook nonostante si fossero iscritti quasi tutti i miei compagni di scuola, amici e conoscenti. Anche se “ce l’han tutti” avevo già annusato la grossa fregatura riassumibile in “se non paghi sei…
Ethics
Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS – TidBITS
Apple says future versions of macOS won’t include a number of open-source scripting languages. The impact of this change will vary depending on the audience, but it will affect more people than you might think. Source: Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS – TidBITS This is a clear “Embrace, extend, extinguish”…
Android, Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
Eh che stufita!
Dear Facebook, I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app. Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never…
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Lessons learned and mistakes made while turning an open-source project into a profitable SaaS product.