this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
203 points (89.5% liked)
DeGoogle Yourself
8756 readers
1 users here now
A community for those that would like to get away from Google.
Here you may post anything related to DeGoogling, why we should do it or good software alternatives!
Rules
-
Be respectful even in disagreement
-
No advertising unless it is very relevent and justified. Do not do this excessively.
-
No low value posts / memes. We or you need to learn, or discuss something.
Related communities
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That shows they're doing a connectivity check to see if they're online (which they aren't).. And grabbed Android TV channels.
Connectivity checks in particular are absolutely standard practice. Even many routers do them
I'm not convinced this is a good reason for dumping google
At this point, for me, any reason to dump Google is a good reason.
This is highly deceptive, and is actually worse than Apple staff implying macos can't get viruses
Even Ubuntu and Debian do connectivity checks. Firefox does too: http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt .
There's lots of valid things you could tell them, so why lie? Other people can easily prove it wrong..
They lie because it's not about the truth. It's about the clout.
Who's lying? I'm confused.