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Google can go fuck itself.
Hopefully this will put some jet fuel into the Linux phone development.
I'm checking out Graphene OS next week and pretty pumped about it. This Google ratfucking has been just the push I need to get off Android.
And obviously I haven't stopped telling people around me haha
Most F-Droid users are NOT custom ROMs.
This means that as long as F-Droid does not get their own developer key - it will become useless.
F-Droid is privacy focused - both dev and user, and they oppose requiring devs to essentially give up their privacy and sign the APK with their own dev key.
Now, if F-Droid is dead, GrapheneOS becomes useless. Who would want to develop apps for the 0.0001% of the population (i.e custom ROM users)
This.
I am the person you are talking about. I've looked into graphene before and I do host some of my own services at home. I also work full time and I don't want to spend all of my free time managing things. I use F-Droid, but I am on stock android on my pixel.
I appreciate the privacy and FOSS nature of F-Droid, but I use things like Android auto Google maps for work, I use banking apps on my phone as well. I know technically micro G and blah blah blah, but like I said: work full time.
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Google can go fuck itself.
Google would much rather go fuck you.
I hope google fails as a whole in the near future and gets dissolved once and for all. Sick and tired of tech companies trying to be sources of authority, working with authoritarian governments, and dictating what you can and can't do.
I don't imagine that paradigm going away at all anytime soon or ever
The only advantage Android has over iOS is being able to install [any] software.
*had Fuck google and every piece of shit implementing this for them.
That's one of the big ones. Also phones with SD card slots and headphone jacks.
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this seems to be going the shittitest direction it could...fuck Google
ps: loving the apple simps coming out to claim iPhones aren't perfect just because you can't "sideload" lool
fuck google for spyware google play services and severe integration of them into android thiugh ^^
loving the apple simps coming out to claim iPhones aren't perfect just because you can't "sideload" lool
Confused ape noises
i love how google will basically destroy the worlds most popular mobile operating system just to protect youtube premium revenue
thats my theory too.
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i bailed on android to join my family on ios, and i hate it. now i cant even go back comfortably. so... linux phones?
I'm not sure why you did that. android still gives you more freedom and is still better
it would be nice
I miss my N900 every day.
Google hit by EU lawsuit in 3.. 2.. 1..
EU wants to read all your online communications so, no, they will not be saving you from this. This furthers that goal
Luckily it's not the same body in the EU who's in charge of enforcing AND setting up proposals.
The EU is not a "one opinion" government body.
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A few months ago? Yeah, I'd be with you. Today? It's the wet dream of the current EU leads. Closed devices, where they can run spyware without risk of it being hindered by custom OS with proper permissions and process separations? So good. For them.
The law EU created looks like it has a loophole which allows manufacturer to prescreen side loaded apps (like what? What's the point of sideloading then?) it is what Apple exploited and Google is going the same direction.
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I was about to switch to android but ended up with another iPhone because of Google killing the only reasons to use android.
I like my air but I’m still waiting for what I really want. A viable Linux phone.
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Calling it already, one of the most popular apps around will be a wrapper around ADB in order to install new apps - maybe Shizuku or Sui?
Hope they would be sued in America and Europe for it. I can't believe it will be OK... And can't believe they clearly think it will be.
I normally use ADB anyway, but wouldn’t surprise me if that becomes more locked down as well. For example, I believe Meta Quest requires a developer account with a credit card attached to even put it in developer mode, and I worry that kind of bullshit will become the norm.
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So I guess I'm going to have to learn to use ADB.
I believe side loaders for the meta quest already use it under the hood. maybe there's potential to make a side loading app store
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Hold up, why all this crap... when most of the malware/infostealers is on Google Playstore... and googe itself is doing it.
It's called "eliminating competition".
Can someone "redpilled by corporate" explain me how this policy actually increase security?
It's trivial for a malware developer to pay $25 with a stolen card and a stolen id
Look at the "verified" bots on xitter, they didn't solve the bots problem, rather just monetized it
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So... Will the ADB let me do this? reVanced specially, YouTube is completely unwatchable otherwise.
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