Thank you for the initiative. I look forward to see the concrete actions.

This feature is mandatory in all new cars sold in the European Union since 2024

They should stop trying

For banking, I use the website instead of the application. I have very few non-open-source applications left on my phone.

I think that using gecko based browsers like Firefox is the best thing to do in the short term. But having no competition is a bad thing. So supporting new web engines, like Ladybird, is important too: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

Glad to see you use cash. It's often forgotten in privacy advice, despite being one of the most importants.

Apple speaks like overprotective parents that don't want their kids to leave home alone.

I think my first donation would be to GrapheneOS.

But it's clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it's established a user base.

Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don't remember now. Better don't rely on Google products.

The announcer (the enterprise on the ad) pays to the advertising platform (for example Google) which gives a small amount to the site displaying the ad.

Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.

When I see this, the only viable option I see is to close the site and boycott it. Any other choice would encourage more companies to do this blackmail.