Playing from another device is the main thing for me, as it’s very convenient… I am also in a “family” plan with a few of my friends and pay a fraction of what a regular premium subscription costs… It’s all just convenience, really.

E: Also, besides tidal, do they really have any serious competition?

That’s just another reminder to stop using Google

I mean, if music is all you are using youtube for, you could piracy Spotify

Go ad free for free!

How do they even know if you use your data as a hotspot? That’s just ridiculous!

My phone is an A52s 5G and I got it specifically because you can mod it to oblivion, this phone has a huge modding community atm. Most ROMs include a workaround for netflix and as I stated above, there are ways to make the camera just as good as stock (I haven’t bothered, as imo the custom ROM’s camera is good enough), and as for payments… Yeah, got nothing there, GWallet used to work but google has been actively fighting against it, so it doesn’t anymore. I, personally am more than willing to drop GWallet to use a custom ROM… The amount of customization, community support, no fcking ads in the quick access menu and the knowledge that it’s my phone, I choose what is installed on it and what isn’t and unlimited GPhotos storage via a trick that most custom ROMs use is just way too good to pass on…

E: Idk wym by “camera doesn’t open if I unlock the bootloader” seems to work fine for me on CrDroid (custom ROM). Amd my question is, why would you use the stock rom if you’ve already went through the effort of unlocking the bootloader, OneUI sucks…

Imo it’s a good idea on any phone. Period. It’s MY phone, I BOUGHT it, I get to choose how long it gets updates for, what is installed and what happens to it, NOT samsung or the ISP…

E2: You got seriously ripped off, if you paid 500 Euro for an A52S

It’s alright, not as good as stock by default (unless you’re using ncx which is oneui but not sh!t) but there are ways to improve it (using a custom version of gcam)

Custom ROMs FTW… no, seriously, most samsung phones have support for at least some custom ROMs and GSIs so it might be worth it to take a look at the options available for your device

I’m blind lmfao

fyi, don’t use simple mobile tools anymore, it’s basically adware now, the project has been forked and renamed to fossify

Ngl, that’s a blessing in disguise

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you own something and it either gets taken away or it gets tarnished in some way, you are fully justified to pirate it…

I had never even heard of it before and upon looking it up… I struggle to grasp why any web app, website or anything on the internet would ever need access to my USB devices, isn’t USB device management the OS’s job? Like, call me stupid here, but I see no genuine use case for this.

It is, but it got to this because of people like some in this comment thread.

“Why have variety, why try anything different, competition? No idea what that is, I’ma just keep using my google chrome, to search things on my google search engine, that comes up with google youtube results, while serving me google ads and google trackers on my already google owned web browser. Oh, and at the end of the day, let me check my google gmail to see if I’ve missed anything from the day. And adblockers? They are piracy, manifest v3 brings a lot of features to the table and isn’t just a shallow attempt to kill adblockers.”

It’s OK if you don’t wanna use firefox, but it needs to exist, not just symbolically and bullshit like this needs to be talked about more. People need to complain about it, instead of blaming mozilla for “not having feature parity” (which is complete bullshit).

I think many people don’t understand what a total chrome (or chromium) monopoly would mean for the internet, it would mean that google will have full control over everything on the internet, they could snap their fingers, implement some bullshit then dare people to do something about it. And I don’t get the “firefox isn’t polished” argument. What about it is less polished than chrome or anything chromium based?

I do agree that mozilla isn’t perfect, but for the better or for worst, it’s the last thing preventing a total google monopoly on the internet…

Tell me 1 area where firefox isn’t at feature parity with chrome, unless you’re referring to mozilla choosing to not drop manifest V2 (which is a feature that chrome doesn’t have… fully functional adblockers and all) and by chrome, i mean chrome. 90% of people don’t use chromium-based browsers, they use chrome, so I think it’s more fair to compare firefox to chrome, instead of any of the chromium-based browsers.

What does evangelism have to do with blatant monopolistic anti-consumer practices being forced on users?

Why do I have to switch out Firefox, which CAN run anything that chrome can, just because some bullshit company said so.

It’s a blatant anti-consumer practice, that is becoming more and more common, just because Firefox can still block ads, while chrome cannot. It’s bullshit and more people need to talk about it.

You should take a look at ReVanced, it’s like youtube vanced but yk, not banned by google

Damn, I feel like a child, being 18 and all, so many 40+ people here haha

use brave mobile, it has a built-in adblock