The discussion I stumbled upon, about this SSH app for Android, is really worrying. Will Google really manage to make it impossible to root your phone?

But there’s more to this, it’s more complicated. In the Big Picture, Google has every incentive to make these changes — they lead to more security, and they’re aligned with Google’s corporate goals as well.

  • When talking to users, Google will emphasize control over hackers.
  • When talking to stockholders, Google will emphasize control over users.

Edit: I disagree with “they lead to more security”. That’s not “security”, let’s not turn words upside-down.

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
    0·
    1 year ago

    MicroG, though a great project, is to my knowledge not Google free and probably never can be.

    [Citation Needed]

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      From their main page:

      (…) privacy-caring users can reduce or monitor data that is sent to Google (…)

      From their dedicated Google connections page:

      In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on them and would just not work without.

      I mean, sure you can ask for sources, but maybe take a little less aggressive stance when the information is so readily available. This took me way more time to write than you would have used looking it up yourself.

      • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
        2·
        1 year ago

        I mean, sure you can ask for sources, but maybe take a little less aggressive stance when the information is so readily available. This took me way more time to write than you would have used looking it up yourself.

        a) You are right, I was a bit annoyed by this thread and all the upvoted misinformation. Sorry.
        b) Though I also don’t find [Citation needed] that aggressive
        c) I also understood it differently, as having google blobs, not making connections to google servers.
        d) finally, the way I read it you can stop all of those connections, it seems to mostly be “if you make connection to google servers, you will make connections to google servers”. How much use you get if you don’t want to connect to google at all is a different thing.