Sloth simulator

“brings” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Thank you for your service!

because they’re rich and don’t want to alienate any portion of people that make them more rich? Also they aren’t even slightly inconvenienced by the changes in policy.

Artists reciprocating the feelings of the people is a thing of the past.

Didn’t this use to be an opt-in setting?

No. It’s the life blood of Google’s tracking ethos so it was always opt out on google’s phones. It’s so important to google that they’ll reset these permissions to “enabled” for all apps on system updates, so you won’t notice it until way later.

At the very least there’s less “you should be supporting my sides’ genocide and it’s your fault my country is ‘openly’ evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well” on lemmy.

Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.

GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too

might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk