… continues to make Play Integrity an integral part of Android and making all the stupid banking and govt apps requiring having it on your phone thus making it harder to de-google.
still no… fuck you.
Degoogle now before they install their malware on your device(s).
If you can get your hands on a pixel, get grapheneOS. If not, get LineageOS or degoogle your phone. With LineageOS you'll have to make do with internet banking instead of banking apps.
I'm glad banks around these parts don't require an app to function.
I have an app on F-Droid. Nothing special, basically something I wrote for myself. I was thinking about putting it on Play Store so I can share it with friends that don't use F-Droid but with those new requirement I'm 100% not doing that. Fuck Google.
That's not good enough. They're just going to keep lightly pushing against the bad publicity until everything not controlled by Google on your phone goes away.
We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks. No phone competition in the US also sucks. Overpriced Samsung or a Google phone, while companies Like Red Magic have fan and liquid cooled phones with huge batteries, more ram, and more storage, for less than a grand being sold around the rest of the world outside the US.
Oneplus had great success but then enshittified. Raised prices to match Samsung and Google, outsourced support to some place that didn't sound like they were even in the same dimension as any English speakers and took away their ability to help customers even by accident and finally quality of their phones went to shit.
They could've sucked the Chinese government subsidy tit for another few years and would've established themselves as legit competition, but that would only delay inevitable enshittification by a few years.
They're a descent phone right now with their OnePlus 15. Huge battery, good and bright screen, top of the line processing and 16GB of the fastest ram you can get in a phone, and less than $1,000.
My issues with it are that their potential unlocking and rooting is a bit up in the air, and that they only offer up to a 512GB with no SD card.
I'd buy a damned Red Magic 11 pro if they didn't block root and supported band 71.
Easing is not removing.
Anything more than a warning and disclaimer popup is too much.
OP is either deluded or in bad faith.
This WILL go through, just slightly later to try to make less noise.
Linux phones are the only choice left.
Deluded or in bad faith for sharing official news?
mostly for endorsing it with your commentary; your position seems to be "we won, everybody drop your weapons and party, google is good again"
and you follow by bashing linux phones in your subsequent comments…
"deluded or bad faith" does seem to fit here bud
We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.
Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.
And if anything thinks I'm being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.
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