Sure, just don't use it for plain text communication with non-geeks as their web mail client won't have a monospace font set for signatures. Hence they will wonder why you end your emails with blob of crap.
But large scale maps ("street level") are quite simple. You can generate those for yourself with ease. It's the small scale maps that seem to suck more often -- simplifications are hard.
After that whole search engine scandal with Kiwi Browser, a lot of people don't trust it anymore. I believe it also majorly lagged behind Chromium versions.
It got updated to newest Chromium version recently, the build process seems to be semi-automated now too.
Isn't it open source too?
Unfortunately it's a bit buggy on some of my devices.
Newest FF beta got unexplained speed bost and tablet UI, it's approaching irreplaceablity steadily for me, There's IceRaven FF fork which has enabled even more addons.
Independent as in: closed off? Servers that don't federate are extremely rare ime, except for the likes of Gab that most people just choose not to federate with.
Remote follow don’t work as good as hardcore users would like it to. Federation mechanisms would have to have kilo- to mega-posts/second bandwidth but not happening.
Also that federation choice being in hand of instance owners makes an account on each instances a must. You are going to have a person or two that your instance owners don’t like, or instance or two that don’t like yours.
Well that's cynical considering all this surveillance arises out of mere political indifference and/or laziness.
Before any falsehoods get mentioned, in the poorest countries you'd better believe there's always a guy ready to make a micro business reflashing things for the technologically unskilled for pennies. If the demand exists.
I'd say: less cynically, this whole thing paints a new target for the Chinese to chase with cut throat prices even lower. Meanwhile, as pragmatists, these Chinese manufacturers aren't categorically hesitant to make reflashing hard. Because they're not best friends with US companies to begin with to care.
First thought that occurs to me is that Google is ultimately aiming to benefit from the data. Same reason facebook pays for free mobile data when accessing fb in 3rd world countries.
