Oh, I’m rooted, I didn’t know that.

On Android I use AdAway (available on F-Droid or GitHub) and I don’t ever see any ad anywhere. On my home PC I use PiHole.

Well, if you have a look at some examples that @[email protected] posted in a comment here, you can see that’s not impossible and that somebody is already doing it.

Thanks!

Have you ever tried ShareX? How does it compare?

And screenshots! We love screenshots!!! 😁

Yes, you’re right. Are we able to go back? I mean, do they want to go back from being paid to almost nothing? And if I’m not mistaken, professional YouTubers produce a quality of videos that didn’t exist back in the days.

we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold

I’d love for that to happen, but without being paid by a central company, content creators won’t…create content. Will it work with content creators own sponsors? Mmm…I don’t know

My point is that you can’t compare today’s problem with 20 years ago! 20 years ago the access to the Internet was through the home PC for the amount of time the kid was allowed to use and with people in the house (usually); today the access to the Internet for a kid is 24/7 and everywhere. There is no comparison. Parents should be more present in the kids life? Sure! Parents should block Internet access to porn website at least until a certain age? Yes! But most of them doesn’t even know that ths is possible. Maybe we (society, givernment) should work more here.

Guys, come on, in the '80/early '90 it was almost impossible to have access to porn, maybe some magazine found somewhere. Today a 10 years old can see porn video on a smartphone everytime he wants! You can’t say that it’s the same!

P.s. In my original message I didn’t say that I’m ok with that law, I was asking (to start a kind discussion) what other possibilities there are.

In fact I wrote:

The firsts with wide Internet access were the late millennials.

which seems to be you.

I know, but what were the risks there? There was no Internet! The firsts with wide Internet access were the late millennials.

I agree with what you say, but how can we prevent kids to use those websites? Todays parents are too IT ignorant and they don’t know that they can protect their kids by using tools that they already have (parental control on smartphones and routers). So, how do we protect those kids? Pornography (for example) can do huge damage to kids.

I’ve tried to use it to ask for help on a couple of other open source projects and I thought that I was using it in the wrong way, that I was missing something. So…I was not! I don’t understand how people could use it for support. Guys talking over each other, questions mixed and lost between other people’s chats, terrible!

Mmm…I haven’t read the article yet (will do!), but why should the owner of a profitable company make it unprofitable? 🤔

Try PassAndroid. It hasn’t been updated in more than a year, but…it works

I haven’t tried it, but having tried Perplexity, I can say that it’s difficult to have something that’s worse than it!

or even pinging GPS satellites (because that leaves a log)

What logs does it leave and where? Satellite is a one way communication system, the devices just receive the satellites signal and calculate the position by themselves.

I’ve been sending my position to my server (with Traccar and GPSlogger) for years and I haven’t had any problems with the battery. It sends out the position every 5 seconds (excessive, I know!!! 🙈) and every 69 seconds when the battery is below 25% and only when it’s not connected to a WiFi network.

But I’m with you about the new Google tracking system. I haven’t had the chance to check: does it work like Apple and can track devices that have been turned off?

I’ll have a look at it. In the meanwhile, I’ve been using Tasker for that: if an SMS from curtains numbers is received with the text “POSITION”, it will reply back with an OpenStreetMap link of the smartphone position.