The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

  • @Zapp@beehaw.org
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    21 year ago

    Spoiler for a later stage of your journey: Your phone gets wayv faster. That part is pretty nice.

    • Kool_Newt
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      31 year ago

      Oh really? Is this from like not having to contact google analytics for every action?

      • @Zapp@beehaw.org
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        21 year ago

        I’m not sure, honestly.

        Charitably, we could assume it’s just from removing Google and various carriers background apps meant to improve my experience.

        Uncharitably, I have my suspicions. For the last five or so versions of Android something always seemed to be using processor cycles and battery when I wasn’t actually doing much with my phone.

        But I never saw evidence of usage data exfiltration via Google apps - at least after I turned off the related optional settings.

        In any case, switching to GrapheneOs was a startling and pleasant speed boost for me, whatever the real root cause.