[kaba0]

It's almost like a giant company like Google have ~100,000 employees, with a complex incentive structure at different levels that are encouraged to do different goals. While I have almost completely de-googled my life a few years ago, it is just stupid to attribute malice to anything they touch -- they have plenty of good contributions, certain parts of AOSP being an example.

I would be happy to have that on a GrapheneOS phone for example, if I hadn't went with Apple.

[sph]

This is not a Googler's 20% project. You can expect any major feature released to have been infected with Google's morality and mentality of being an ad company needing to extract profit out of free products.

You cannot apply Hanlon's Razor to megacorporations.

[pulpfictional]

GrapheneOS has had 4G only mode for a while, not sure about the rest. I wouldn't be surprised if there'd been some communication on their end.

I wouldn't say malice but some of their practices are hostile.

[Denatonium]

I think a lot of Android devices have that; you type ##4636## into the dialer, and a menu appears. In that menu, you can select which cellular technologies are used.

[kaba0]

Some of their practices are, my gripe is with the “all” quantifier.