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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

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410 points morsch | 5 comments | 14 May 25 05:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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inigoalonso ◴[14 May 25 08:44 UTC] No.43982322[source]▶
This is exactly why the EU's Digital Markets Act exists. And why it needs teeth. Google disabling Nextcloud's all-files access on Android, while quietly letting its own apps and big corporate players keep it, isn't about "security". It's about control. Nextcloud is a European, privacy-first alternative built on open standards and that can be fully aligned with GDPR requirements. Blocking its core functionality while favouring your own services is a textbook abuse of platform power. Android was supposed to be open, but moves like this show it (at least the Play Services verison) is just another walled garden. If the EU is serious about digital sovereignty and fair competition, this is the kind of behaviour that must be stopped. Otherwise, no European tech, no matter how compliant, open, or user-friendly, stands a chance.
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1. darkwater ◴[14 May 25 09:13 UTC] No.43982499[source]▶
Waiting for the nitpicker crowd "you can install AOSP and/or sideload APKs easily, so there is no incumbent abuse here!", just like we had them for IE (you can install another browser) and iPhone (you can buy another brand).

Edit: oh we already have them in the other submission

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2. raverbashing ◴[14 May 25 09:55 UTC] No.43982694[source]▶
Yeah it's the "less space than a Nomad" people

I know, I used to be one of those

3. geff82 ◴[14 May 25 10:56 UTC] No.43983013[source]▶
Just use e/os ! ;)
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4. subscribed ◴[14 May 25 11:55 UTC] No.43983404[source]▶
Maybe something else instead. e/os famously leaves the bootloader gaping open after the installation (looks like relocking is only supported on Fairphones), is very late to release anything (their most recent ROM is still based on AOSP 14!), inc.securty updates.

Doesn't sound like a serious project.

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5. em-bee ◴[14 May 25 12:42 UTC] No.43983837{3}[source]▶
what else?

i'd rather have secure, stable and slow. i don't know about locking the bootloader (do you have a reference to that? i'd like to read up on it). but i don't care that their rom is always the most recent one.

what matters is that e/OS is the only rom i am aware of that combines usability with security. graphene OS doesn't count because it is only available on pixel phones and therefore very limited in applicability. others i don't know.