Building Trust Through Transparent Development Practices
At Capivara Collective, transparency is more than just a buzzword; it's the foundation of how we operate. To be transparent is to be boldly honest about how any code I push can or will effect the consumer... but I am still too small of a fish to do any major damage if this were not my ethos. Unfortunately, the giants don't play so nice. Today I would like to illuminate a scheduled "patch" that google is going to implement that will change the way many people use their android devices.
The backbone of Android's business model has been that it is open-source and allows the user that payed for their phone to use it pretty much how they want within legal parameters. What this means is that android users can download apps that aren't hosted on google play or phone brand stores like Samsung app store. This was to give developers the freedom to experiment with their apps, but also the average user can 'side load' the app their friend made... or download a 'third-party' app store like, most notably, F-Droid. F-Droid is a full fledged app store with nearly ALL open-source apps. you can find some of the strongest data privacy tools here, customized apps that minimize ads, forks of major social media apps but without the telemetry so you can watch YouTube but not hand over your data, completely independent de-centralized open-source social media platforms that are growing called the Fediverse, and even apps that help you check if your connecting to your normal cell towers or if there is "by chance" a new one that is blocking out the normal ones in your area (That is what cell tower spoofers do... they're better known as Stingrays and are a spy tool that bad guys can order off the dark web or ICE/ the local police use to scrape ALL cell activity within the area.) So the announcement that Google will be forcing all apps created for android required to register with google, submit an ID and face scan, pay into their program, and get a final mark the app was approved before it will function on the phone is a HUGE slap in our faces. They already are making YouTube impossible to use without verifying your age by a face scan... why do they want out faces so badly when over the last 20 years they have aggregated nearly all of the data that defines and describes us???
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