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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Having used custom ROMs for years, it can get tiring to fight with SafetyNet, find root backup apps that still work, dealing with bugs the developer may not be able to reproduce and, of course, even finding decent phones that have decent ROMs. I refuse to buy a Pixel until they have a decent SoC and price.

    So for my next phone I’m currently considering an OEM that supports phones for long and has decent customization by default - Samsung. As I’ve never owned Samsung phones before, I don’t know whether I’ll like their OS, but so far it looks good enough.



  • every app wanted to have its own persistent notification

    When? Which apps? I’ve been using Android since KitKat and I only remember persistent notifications by apps that needed them (to keep working, stay in memory).

    That said, I agree that a permission would be nice, as I am skeptical of the use cases shown in the article mockups. I think it should stay an ongoing notification thing as anything else would indeed take more space.



  • Yes, by default every Chromium browser is affected. It is just a matter of

    • whether they want to extend it to the enterprise time (which Edge and Opera won’t do IIRC)
    • whether they’d try to keep it working after enterprise time (maybe Brave and Vivaldi, but it could take a lot of effort)
    • whether they even have an alternative place to download extensions from if CWS takes MV2 extensions down (Brave has some workaround for few extensions, not sure about others)

    Maybe there will be some devs working on Ungoogled Chromium to keep the support, but they also have to think where users would even get the extensions from.