When the Digital Markets Act goes into effect, Google will allow users in the EU to unlink the Google services they use.
  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The EU seems like the only major entity actually trying at this point. They deserve a huge thanks in my book.

  • faerbit@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Cool. When can I have another location or backup provider on my Android phone?

    • Madis@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      You can already use any backup apps. ADB-based, root-based or simply copying the APKs.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Can’t back up app data without rooting my phone, and I can’t root my phone until a third party gets the make files for me to use with magisk, and Motorola is not forced to provide them.

        • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          9 months ago

          you can definitely back up apps and most files using adb and a computer, and probably even your phone itself by doing adb over the network back to your phone

          also, i think there’s a way of setting up a different location provider in the developper setings on android!

  • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU law that takes effect on March 6, 2024. As a result of the DMA, in the EU, Google offers you the choice to keep certain Google services linked.

    Gotta love the weaselly language.

    I’m wondering if they try to slither out of actually complying with the law.

    • They say they will unlink whatever “Ad Services” is and everything else. IMO they should unlink customer ad profiles from other service accounts, which I don’t expect them to do.
    • The whole point of the DMA is not just to have Google unlink your Youtube account from your Gmail account, but that they provide the same level of service and integration to outside services as with their own, without prioritizing their own. That means that I should be able to use Google Chrome and Search together to the same degree as Firefox and Search. Execs at Google are on record saying the only point of them developing Chrome is to do stuff that is now against the law in Europe. I wonder if they find a new business model or keep the current, illegal one.
    • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      “Google to kill its own browser monopoly and encourage competition instead by leaving a market bigger than the US open”