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Google’s Fingerprinting Returns In 8 Weeks And It Will Track Your Devices (www.forbes.com)

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dang. Yeah, every time I look for a new smartphone I check to see what the Lineage and future PmOS support is like

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is a Note 8 and no one has figured out a way to open the Snapdragon bootloader.

Thing is I specifically chose Snapdragon for its performance. Silly me.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Yep, I've had to tearfully look away from better (and cheaper) handsets than the one I'm holding for the same reason. If it can't be repurposed don't buy it