Very important, and becoming more important by the day as more and more regions agegate the internet. You need to change regions so you can access sites without guaranteed identity theft.

If you don’t use one, it’s fairly trivial to link your activity across the internet, as well as trace any internet traffic back to you, personally.

Connectivity is certainly a problem. For the most part, if they block my access, then I consider them not worth visiting.

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There are many other “uncertified” ROMs.

1. The EU hasn’t even been able to stop Apple from doing this shit.

2. The EU is actively preventing their own people from leaving the Google ecosystem with the Play Integrity API in their own apps.

Depends on your location. There is a timeline table here:

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides

Maybe they do, but this way at least they’re legally liable for ignoring consent.

I mean the alternative is that they simply sell it without your consent.

NFC is just the technology used to facilitate the connection. But it’s used for a wide variety of really cool stuff. Not trying to contradict you, just your post is a little unclear because of it.

Unfortunately this is just the state of the web in the modern day. Virtually every site exists to serve you ads while simultaneously collecting your data and selling it to their “partners” in exchange for their content.

First, You’re confused. That’s not NFC. NFC is just the method used in contactless payment.

Second, there are no alternatives. Any alternative would need the blessing of Google, as well as your bank/CC company. Which they’re not going to provide.

Third, the only private method to transfer money is cash. Or crypto from a wallet you hold.

It isn’t. And you know it isn’t.

Cool, I’m happy for you. I didn’t come here to debug my system. I spent many hours trying across various distros on various hardware with no success. I don’t care anymore. When GOG decides they want to support Proton, I’ll consider supporting them. Until then I just buy and use them on steam and they just work. The end. Thank you.

Clearly their run-in with the DOJ and subsequent wrist-slap has emboldened them to new heights of anticompetitiveness.

Dude, you know that literally doesn’t work either?

From the OP:

Google Safe Browsing looks to be have been built without consideration for open-source or self-hosted software. Many popular projects have run into similar issues, such as:

• Jellyfin

• YunoHost

• n8n

• NextCloud

I don’t keep a log but off the top of my head, Deathloop and Cygni

Not sure what the ‘barely works’ part you are talking about is.

The part where it barely works. Like maybe 50% of the time. Often enough to not even bother with it and just get my games on Steam where they’re always available and always work.

It’s 50/50 for me

It would be good news if there were any games on there I actually wanted to buy, or if they supported Proton.

And please don’t mention Heroic or Lutris because they barely work either. Steam is the only one that works 100% of the time.

ITT: everyone wants to lie about Heroic and Lutris.

Spider-Man 2 is one of my favorite games ever. So glad it was no PS exclusive, and that they finally knocked off the PS account shitfuckery.

It’s hard to find good news these days so I will hold on to whatever I can get.