Your #Android phone has a so-called Google advertising ID*, a unique number for your device. Using that, #tracking companies follow and record what you do on your phone, even across apps from different companies.
Luckily, you can now disable the advertising ID to make it harder for them to track you. We recommend doing this to everyone. Here's how it works.
*Unless of course, you’re using a google-free #LineageOS, #GrapheneOS or similar. :)
This is pretty cool: the Serial USB Terminal Android app on chromeOS on my ASUS Chromebox 3. The terminal is running a CP/M 3.0 session on a Z80-MBC2 Z80 homebrew computer connected to the Chromebox via serial USB.
If you use Android, you can find lots of Fediverse-related apps and other free open source software on @fdroidorg, an alternative to Google Play which emphasises privacy and ethical software.
Also, some apps which cost money on Google Play are free of charge on F-Droid, such as Fedilab @apps. (This is because the app devs encourage people to use F-Droid.)
Due to Google's anti-competition roadblocks, it's slightly tricky to install F-Droid, but once it's installed it's very easy to use. It looks and works very much like a normal app store.
If you are comfortable using an APK file you can get it from F-Droid's website at https://f-droid.org
For less technical people, there's a step-by-step beginner's guide to installing F-Droid at:
And a big thank you to the Android Security team, for supporting our early adoption of #Rust in #Android and developing all the build and test infrastructure that we needed to get from a prototype to production code.
We all know Newpipe and AntennaPod and Bromite, but sometimes, some apps don't get to shine as much, so I wanted to share a couple that I think deserve some love too
Yo toda mi vida ame los controles remotos llenos de botones... hasta que llego Android y el SmarTV... no puede haber cosa mas pistola que intentar manejar un SmarTV con un control infrarrojo #android#smartv#controlremoto#tecnología
K9 Mail, el cliente de correo electrónico libre para el androide verde, tras un acuerdo con Mozilla, llegará a ser Thunderbird para dispositivos Android.
It's based on an app by @pla, who enjoyed sharing pictures on the Fediverse while out and about. PLA sadly died in January 2021, and Fediphot Lineage aims to honour his memory by keeping his project alive.
El Midori Lite en Android no carga la pagina de mastodon, el navegador cutre pero HTML5 de mi telefono de botoncitos con KaiOS, si... con los dumbphones vamos a conquistar el mundo, anota lo que te digo... #android#kaios#MinimalismoDigital#yameiba
This is the equivalent screen for an OS update on a #Samsung phone.
The page design makes it appear more professional than #OnePlus, but if you look closer, there are only 2 lines of release notes: * Overall stability of functions improved. * The security of your device has been improved.
while EU is drafting a new law for #chatcontrol, Briar remains p2p, protects your social graph by using Tor by default and uses e2ee (end to end encryption) for every message by default. Learn more about Briar: https://briarproject.org/
Unfortunate #Briar is currently only available for #android.