Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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We need to support Linux Phones development more now than ever based on recent news (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in the future. They’re going to eventually ban adblockers for chromium. We need to quickly respond with alternatives to android, we must end this market consolidation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Won’t stop google from putting in ads in android apps

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Pihole might solve that.

Either way, though, I would love for linux phones to become valid alternatives to android.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Tempfixes are good, independence is better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Netguard is also great. I set it to block all apps network access by default, and have a whitelist with apps that actually need it. It has significantly reduced the amount of ads and tracking significantly from my phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We need a safe home for ReVanced and to give google less of an argument for removing as it would be ran on a Linux phone os

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a pihole as a DHCP server. Easy does it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sorry but thats not true. A lot of seevices bake ads into their video signal. Neither a dhcp nor a dns can change that. You need to have something that reads that signal and decides on that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ads have been in Android apps for 15 years, you can generally block them all with Private DNS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Try Ad-Away