Google doesn't have any actual support. I had an issue with my Google account where I was flagged as a minor by Google's automated systems, even tough my age was verified with an ID. I spent months trying to get in touch with someone who could do anything. Everyone just kept sending me completely irrelevant copy-pasted troubleshooting instructions. I also had similar issues with other Google products, that could only be resolved on their end, and there was nothing I could do. Google just doesn't care.
And it's not just Google, Microsoft is currently blocking downloads from one of my websites in Edge. I tried appealing multiple times, and nothing.
We need laws that require companies to provide actual, meaningful support.
I mean, if you're making a fork, don't use the name of the project you're forking. If you fork Firefox and call it Firefox+ for example, Mozilla's legal department will email you, and ask you to stop violating their trademark.
The issue is about downstream source build packages. These packages are not based on any forks. The MultiMC maintainers don't even want source build packages to exist. They insist that distributing binaries built by them is the only way. This essentially contradicts the Apache 2.0 license, which states that distribution of the original work is allowed.
And there's the hostility throughout the conversation from the MultiMC maintainers.
It's because features like Microsoft login require app credentials, and if you build from source, then you don't have these, and thus certain features will not work. Then people come along and ask why X is not working. Well, you installed an unofficial release and only official releases are supported by the devs.
But MultiMC is not a registered trademark, and the mentioned usage of the name "MultiMC" in those AUR packages is merely "required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file" which is certainly allowed by the Apache 2.0 License.
They are only describing the source, and all they've done in these AUR packages cannot even be treated as a fork: all they've done is adding several patches to make the source build work.
Decentralization is my goal, but I need to do things in the right order and not fight 10 battles at 1 time. here is my plan to add decentralization:
* secure revenues with the hosted offering to assure the sustainability of the project
* Grow a community
* Work on decentralization
So it's "centralized" (it's not really a social app, so it's not really a problem) right now, but the goal is (the identity part) to be federated/p2p in 1 year
Yeah I know, I'm just expressing my desire that it would.
It's nice, clean, simple and nowhere near as "bloaty" (for lack of a better word) as normal FF on android. I use it as my default browser on my phone, but (for some reason[1]) every now and again it dumps articles I leave open and then I am no longer able to find and read them :/
[1] I have a feeling it happens after every update.
And it's not just Google, Microsoft is currently blocking downloads from one of my websites in Edge. I tried appealing multiple times, and nothing.
We need laws that require companies to provide actual, meaningful support.