I see your point, but I'm here for Android 17.Are you in the wrong thread? Or am I?

That is because signal already stores media for 45 days as part of ensuring delivery to every device in your account.

As a regular user, besides tap to pay what do you use NFC for? I get your point that it works, but what uses are there besides tap to pay for most users?

What's the brand we should look out for?

That maybe why they did it, but it doesn't really refute the point either.

Yeah. That post has over 900 comments, which is rare even for an Ars article. Mostly negative sentiment, which I get.

This is the main thing preventing me, and probably a good amount of other folks, from using alternative roms. If I can get all the apps I need to run, then I can't use the rom, even if I would prefer it.

Not seeing it on f-droid yet.

Nah. They will cross licence with the other big players effectively closing the market to anyone they don't bless.

How'd that work out for them? Answer? Not well. History repeats itself, so here we go!

To use the feature or not, sure, but you can't use the feature and not be tracked.

Me too, and I'm not even a fan of meta to begin with, but paying to link to another site is a pure violation of the way the Internet was supposed to work.