with the recent news about the things that were said about Google slowing down Firefox on purpose, are they doing this because they severily dislike Firefox/open source? :c If so, that wouldn’t make a lot of sense!!! Because Google loves open source too. I read they were doing this to stop adblockers, and well if you use Firefox without those, it can work maybe! I use Chromium and Google Chrome on Ubuntu u
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Could you elaborate what Google Code is for example in GrapheneOS?
GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility…
That’s not the same as an ungoogled fork of Android, is it.
I’m a bit confused about the emphasis you put in the quote… GrapheneOS is built on AOSP (the open-source part of Android), it’s definitely not some OS built from ground up (look no further than the various Linux phone projects to see how terrible those are as Android replacements atm).
Technically it isn’t Android, because Google owns the trademark and has some requirements for stuff that wants to call itself Android - it needs to pass a compatibility test and more importantly, include Google Play Services. But it is as much Android as any other custom ROM.
That was never mentioned, it just said it had Google App compatiblity… and I didn’t look any further to be honest.
In my original reply, that’s why I said “almost no one”. Because, yes, some people might try and untangle that spaghetti code, riddled with tons of Google native things (there’s also LineageOS), but in reality, even if someone does it, no one is gonna use it. Sure, your oddball dev or Linux user, here and there, but mass adoption, no way. Main problem, as with every Android fork - drivers.
I really see no point actually forking Android if you can’t get a decent set of drivers that work, regardless if they’re closed or open source (though open source would be nice).
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The privacy and security enhancement of GrapheneOS is partly achieved by having next to no Google included in the OS.