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Submit search to https://killedbygoogle.com/ ? - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago
No way. Related dead Google products: - Nest Secure - Google Home Max If it's not about ads, Google will kill it. [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago
> Google is large enough to not care about small opportunities. It ends up focusing on bigger opportunities that result in shittier products overall. For example, just a few months ago they cut 17 features from Google Assistant because they couldn't monetize them, sorry, because these were "small opportunities": https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/11/google-is-removing-17-underutilized-assistant-features/ > all are... - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago
>Google operates in China albeit via their HK domain. The Chinese government has access to the iCloud account of every Chinese Apple user. >They also had project DragonFly if you remember. Which never materialized. >The lesser of two evils is that one company doesn’t try to actively profile me (in order for their ads business to be better) with every piece of data it can find and forces me to share all possible... - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago
Google operates in China albeit via their HK domain. They also had project DragonFly if you remember. The lesser of two evils is that one company doesn’t try to actively profile me (in order for their ads business to be better) with every piece of data it can find and forces me to share all possible data with them. Google is famously known to kill apps that are good and used by customers:... - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago
AdAway can install itself as a VPN provider on your Android phone for the sole purpose of modifying traffic and blocking content. It is not actually a VPN. https://adaway.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Seeing this I'm even more happy that I use AdAway. Source: 11 months ago
If filtering is done locally on the device itself (i.e. Like in AdAway, DNS66, NetGuard or personalDNSfilter) it's not. Source: 12 months ago
I switched to AdAway once the whole VPN/"reading your private connection requests" advertising came up in Blokada. Source: 12 months ago
I have installed Lineage OS 13 on my OP 6T, then added Magisk to be able to launch as root. It was initially for AdAway to run as super user. Revolut complained and refused to start. Source: 12 months ago
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