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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Damn. I wonder if a custom OS remove this “feature”…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know in GrapheneOS that the Google Play Services are sandboxed and you can install them in a specific user profile, but I’m not sure if doing that still gives you notifications across those profiles

Hopefully someone with a little more knowledge of this can help? lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh, so that’s what it’s called, thanks. I was looking for this after seeing Unity pull the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It might be a good substitute for some. Some features like contact and storage scopes are missing, and IMO they’re pretty cool Overall just worse privacy and security compared to Graphene

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

May I recommend Universal Android Debloater instead? It lets you uninstall the bloatware easily with lists, you just need a device running a desktop os and a cable to connect it to your phone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The desktop client logs and sends lists of currently running processes by default, and they also collect usage data (which channels you open, how long for, who you’re interacting with). In the settings, there’s literally an option for “Use data to customize my Discord experience”. And sure, they don’t show ads, but their third-party integrations do. Article with sources

In the end, processing and storing millions of texts, images, videos and files permanently, and hosting all those live voice and video calls, and making updates to the clients, will always cost more than what they get from Nitro and server boosting. Discord isn’t profitable; they have to make the deficit up to shareholders somehow.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

At least you can block some of the telemetry with uBlock or similar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By default, sure. But uBlock is way more powerful when you configure it. Seriously, take a look at their wiki. I doubt that Brave lets you choose exactly which domains to connect to on a per-site basis. And do you really want an advertising company to make your adblocker? They’ve done shadier stuff.