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19 days agoWe really need an open source mobile operating system that isn’t controlled by tech megacorps.
Android is far too compromised by corporate profit motives.
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it helps network operators identify tether traffic and prevents it from being hidden by the systems VPN.
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it facilitates vendor pre installed adware, bloat ware, and malware that can’t be uninstalled
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it facilitates carrier locking to prevent users from switching carriers
Points 2 and 3 and just innate to the project, not something that can be fixed in a custom ROM. Point 1 is not something any of those projects choose to fix, you need to either root or use a particular ROM to get around that because of how baked into the network stack those limitations are.