back to article Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps

Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps. First, for those who don't know: Google's Jigsaw internet freedom unit offers an open source project called Outline that consists of a client and a manager. You use the …

  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    I wonder if they've built in something like the (anything but) privacy-sandbox and if they haven't done that yet how long will they wait?

  2. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge
    Holmes

    More garbage for Play Store

    App developers easily use this to put hostile advertising and personal data collection in their junk apps in a way that's difficult to detect or block. Google sells ads, Google steals privacy, Google sells evil developers cloud proxies, and Google makes more $$$$$$$$$$$.

  3. Ball boy Silver badge

    There's a trust issue at stake

    So, rather than allow a Government to possibly spy on my comms or have authoritarian regimes block what sites I can visit, I'm meant to put all my faith in a company that makes the vast bulk of its revenue by using the marketing data it has syphoned off from the very people passing through its services?

    Not sure I like that very much.

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