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Hello all, thank you very much for your feedback, and sorry for my late reply.
I feel no offense, I was just trying to raise something I really care about : privacy. I appreciate you listen to members, and that you have removed this &t=parameter. Thank you all again.

Hello, I am interested to install UBports on my Nexus 5, however I would like to know if it was possible to install Snap or Flatpak applications there?
I would like to install Kodi (ideally 2 different versions for specific needs), I searched here and there, but I didn't find the answer to my question. Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

@moem SoC stands for System on a Chip, this is (more or less) the equivalent of the processor on the PCs. In any case, thank you for having answered my questions.

So if anybody else has some experience on building, please let me know, thanks !

@drikk Thank you so much, I was not hoping a so good / complete feedback !

Hello, thank you for proposing UBports, I like a lot the UI.
However, I just have used Moph Browser and I can see that my URL requests are redirected to Canonical using &t= parameter (see below picture) :

I thank your team/ Canonical for bringing UT and Ubuntu in general, but in such case I feel like an invasion of my privacy. On your website, under Donate sentence, it is mentioned "Do you care about freedom of choice and privacy?".

Unfortunately, this is not what I could experience. Now, I (maybe other users) need clear answers :

• 1. Why Morph Browser allows redirections to Canonical servers ? Is it RGPD compatible ?
• 2. What else is sent as a telemetry from OS/app to whatever company/organization ?
• 3. Is there another browser (Firefox) please?

Thank you for your feeback.

@kugiigi ok ! I was not aware about this "hidden" detail, it's confusing.
For me Nextcloud account sync means obviously Contacts and Calendar + optional features (trough this sync or through specific apps).
Now I really understand te reason of his thread and agree with the fact that when you leave iOS or Android for Ubuntu Touch, you expect to have self hosted sync or alternative sync, although it is good to see Google sync.

Contact sync is a very important feature, I hope it will be implemented.

Hello, another hardware acceleration topic ! ^^

That's because I am trying to understand something.
The Oneplus one :

• CPU : Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400,
• Chipset : Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC,
• GPU : Qualcomm Adreno 330

and the Nexus 5 :

• CPU : Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400,
• Chipset : Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, MSM8974AA,
• GPU : Qualcomm Adreno 330

have almost the same hardware, as you can see above.
But Oneplus One supports hardware acceleration, and Nexus 5 not.

So what is the blocking point, where lies the incompatibility, does the 800 to 801 iteration change the game?

Thank you for your clarifications.

I have found the &t= parameter purpose :
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/t/

Through partnerships with developers and companies, DuckDuckGo has been integrated into many applications. In these partnerships, a portion of DuckDuckGo's advertising revenue is sometimes shared back. To assign advertising revenue and collect anonymous aggregate usage information, developers add a unique "&t=" parameter to searches made through their applications. 

So it should have been added by developers team on purpose. So my question is still why ? And we know that "anonymous" means nothing. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple use this term.

I dislike the fact that asking question gives me -1 "like". I am objective, I like UBports like you, but an explanation is needed. If a member is wondering about something (with no troll), I would not give him -1 as a social warrior. I read, and answer.

@AppLee I understand all what you say, but please, understand that the priority sometimes shall be done on basic features.

What I call basic feature is call, camera (picture/video), movie/audio player, and browser. They shall be ready almost at start.

Then you have the basic features which may not work at day 1 such as bluetooth, GPS, etc. but shall be important too.

Rather than focusing on one feature or another, I think we already need to get the basic features working. After the new features are a very good thing, but they should not take priority over the essential things.

If we just find it normal that Video player only works on certain videos (for 2 years), we risk saying "it works, pretty well, the rest we'll see later" and we leave it aside for another 2 years ?

It would be better and more logical to prioritize this feature, and please, no offense don't take it personal, somebody have to raise this issue.

I just would like to thank you all, as I have learned many things from this thread, especially the chart with the LXC container and UT.

My opinion is that FSF could add UT in the list with a star *(UT on Pinephone only) Because, if UT in the Pinephone complies with the FSF requirements, then it should be added into the list.

@MarkG_108 it's a mistake, my experience sharing reply was for @Giiba (you have the same color image), not to you sorry.

@AppLee : about VLC skin workaround, except if I missed something, this was a proposal that I have made, but if I understood, the same hardware limitations are raised. However, if the Librem 5 / Pinephone can use hardware acceleration, then it is interesting. I hope to follow up the development by UBports team for those projects.

@dobey : it is really strange, both Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 use the same Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 SoC and Adreno 320 GPU. Maybe they can decode small videos and not long (> 20mn), who knows ?

In any case, thank you for having reply and tried to help.

@applee Yes with pleasure, I hope it will help

@totalrando Hello, I have to thank you for this workaround.

I am sad that Element isn't in Ubuntu Touch because Fluffy Chat seems not up to date (according to a review in the open store).

Hello, I try to understand the E2E encryption in fluffy chat.

I would like to use it but following this discussion, it is said :

We won't implement e2ee in this app. You can use Pantalaimon for this.

However, seeing this link it is mentionned that E2EE is implemented.

Please, do you know what is the status of E2EE ? There is no other Matrix client in Ubuntu Touch, so I would really hope that E2EE is supported.

Thank you for your feedback.

Thank you both and sorry for my late reply. Just a question : I have searched for Pantalaimon and did not find it in the Open Store :

• where shall I be able to find and install it ?
• does both apps "combined" drain battery ?

Thank you again !