If anyone is interested, this seems to be the original article from Süddeutsche Zeitung that the English article mentions several times but doesn’t link:

This is nice, but at the same time the EU keeps pushing for a backdoor in encrypted messenger services, so remember we needed to keep pressuring our politicians into doing the right thing.

Gluten is a protein, nobody would call it a plastic

Year One. I can’t stand Jack Black nor Michael Cera after wasting 90 minutes of my life watching that trash.

Perfect answer. It is hosted in Gitlab, but i’m not sure you can download an APK there.

And even better: Mull (based on Firefox) + uBlock Origin

2023 is the hottest year ever in record. Everything suggests that it won’t hold that record for long. Why would I bring children to this world to suffer the hell that 2050 will be?

Google a été fondé en 1998. Il existait en 2003 et était un des plus populaires moteurs de recherche.

Thank you, it gets complicated as you dive deeper. Am I right when I think that Chromium, although Open Source, is mainly developed by Google and therefore follows Google’s agenda?

Thank you, I used to know the rendering engines fairly well a few years ago, but I’m out of the loop now.

What about WebView? It’s the rendering engine used in Android, closely related to Blink I assume.

Yes! I failed to dive deeper, but you expressed it well. They have already planned to remove the option to have ad-blockers in Chrome… what will come next?

Because it’s the only browser not based on Google’s Chromium rendering engine (Webview, WebKit? whatever). Using any other browser supports Google’s monopoly over how we browse the internet and what we are allowed to see. No, fuck Google.

Edit: spelling

Yes, I feel like all these Big Tech companies changed the parent company name (Facebook -> Meta, Google -> Alphabet) to confuse end users when they read news about how they harvest our data don’t respect our privacy: the news talk about a big company spying on users, users know a few app names and most don’t link both together

It doesn’t have to be. This could be how YouTube dies.

Websites are nothing without users. We have the power to stop using websites that pull this shit and promote new websites that don’t.

You’re welcome. Take into account that switching from Apple / Google Maps to one of those apps is quite a change and takes some time to get used to: they work offline (which is great for hiking or traveling abroad) so you need to download the maps you’ll use beforehand. Also the data might be incomplete… but you can help to improve it, which I find really cool. And it’s important to realise that the data doesn’t come from the same source as the app, so missing map data is not the app developer’s fault. Finally there’s no business reviews or ratings, which I don’t personally miss, but I understand some people will.

I’d say ditch both Apple and Google and use an app based on OpenStreetMap data. The mapping data shouldn’t belong to any corporation that can decide to restrict access tomorrow. Use OpenStreetMap and if you find the mapping is not good enough contribute to improve it, just like one can do in Wikipedia.

To access OpenStreetMap data I’d recommend the apps Organic Maps (lightweight and simple) or OsmAnd (more feature packed but heavier). Magic Earth is also an alternative.

Apparently the automatic translation tool they used interpreted “(those that) work forces” as “(those) workforces”

I had a discussion some time ago in Reddit with someone who argued that Spain is not western Europe, but Germany is. They even provided links and it seems that geopolitically it is considered like that, but having lived in Spain and Germany and in between I think barely anyone raised there would say so

Another vote for KISS (https://kisslauncher.com/) and Kvaesitso (https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/).

Both FOSS, both search based. Depending on your taste you might find KISS perfectly simple and Kvaesitso a bit bloated; or KISS too basic and Kvaesitso more feature packed and complete.

I’d recommend trying both and deciding for yourself.

Link to the scientific article which the news article is based on: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w