- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.
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devils.
Fuck google, verify my ass motherfuckers
goddamnit I JUST bought a new Fairphone 5 and opted not to go for e/os variant, because I was worried of incompatibility issues.
Guess I’ll have to learn how to replace my phone OS in 2026…
Guess I’m going back to a dumbphone next time because I’m NOT letting Google see what I’m downloading, I’d rather carry a laptop all day.
GrapheneOS works likea champ on my used Pixel 7 Pro, it was less than 100USD about 6m ago
There are alternatives to Google and Apple products. I recommend the MNT Pocket Reform if you’d like a full keyboard, or a Librem 5 if you prefer a more typical smartphone form factor.
That pocket reform looks super cool, added to the “save up for me” list
Will, what’s the point now? Fuck it get an Apple. Why not.
EDIT This is the future. Stop sideloading apps, then lock the bootloader.
Let Google know what you think about this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITkdzMxv81rJDEGGjO-UIDDY28Rz_GEVA/viewform
Who organized this form? Is there something official to make it look like it’s not just signing me up for spam?
A valid question.
It’s the official survey form from the Android Developer page on the matter: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides
will I be able to install the Google Play store on graphino S
Right now? Yeah, its very easy to do, and there’s a download link for it included in GrapheneOS’s preinstalled app-store.
I am however worried that eventually Google will make running custom software (apks, alternate firmwares) so difficult that development for those will stop long term.
Damn, it feels like someone is treating a 1984 novel like an instruction…
So I guess my next phone will be a Chinese phone. Even if it spies on me, I’ll have the freedom to install whatever I want from anywhere.
The Chinese have a golden window of opportunity. Let’s hope they don’t mess this up.
And here I thought I wouldn’t root or flash my next phone.
In short, they make independent stores impossible?
Mostly; they just force themselves into the process for publishing each app and have an effective veto on apps. So yeah, no stores fully independent of Google.
… Didn’t the EU JUST fine Apple half a billion euros over the same thing?
This will not apply to GrapheneOS, right?
just last month there was news about some changes in Android that will make it harder for alternative distributions… go figure
It won’t apply to GrapheneOS. It only applies to certified OSes and GrapheneOS is not certified because it doesn’t license Google Mobile Services.
this might be the thing that makes me install it
I highly doubt it
linux phones please hurry!
Android is Linux…
gnu/linux user space phones please hurry!
This is about as useful as the assholes going “It’s not Pedophilia, it’s Hebephilia!”.
Haha. Ha.
oh what’s the problem then I wonder
It’s so heavily derive so as to be effectively wrong. It’d be like calling a human a jawless fish sure it’s technically true but entirely misses the point.
If I understood correctly they use DMA as an additional justification. Thank you, EU parlament.
