That also means they now will know about every app installs, worldwide. So when the government comes in and ask who have installed this app they decided is bad, they can come get you.
Signal, VPNs, they’ll have a list of everyone opting out of government-mandated backdoors.
LineageOS so worth losing Play Integrity.
When it announced developer verification, it said the process would not evaluate the content of an app.
Ok, sure. The ICE Block app Google just pulled from Play Store will not be evaluated.
you mean Apple? the app was exclusively on iOS. it was a doxxing target from the get-go ran by an amateur that ran his database with unfixed vulnerabilities
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddot.alerts&hl=en-US
Google removed RedDot.
sounds like it was garbage. IRL ice watch volunteers use Signal or Whatsapp
I’m sure that’s another well researched comment.
these apps are slop generating machines. the equivalent of relying on Nextdoor to keep your community safe. I’m waiting for any journalism or research papers to come out proving they didn’t just make the situation worse
This is a great example why google control is a bad idea… you can’t trust these bootlickers with anything, they are an extension of the ruling oligarchy which controls the corporation directly and the government organs via corruption.
This is a class war, and plebs are way behind.
Paid or free, All I know is that I won’t be buying any device i can’t install my own apps on.
They should rebrand it to aOS since it’s quickly becoming just as shit trash as iOS. I wonder how many people will jump ship to iOS where they still get a shitty OS but with some modicum of privacy OOTB as an added bonus
My next phone is going to be as basic as possible and I’ll have to start carrying a laptop with me everywhere again.
A lot already have actually, writing was on the wall back when they dropped the version names which was also around the time a lot of the original Android hardware OEMs gave in which left us with carriers giving you the option between Samsung, Google, and Motorola.
Then they abused Trump’s first term to ban Huawei for spyware since it was competing too well.
The frontend UI sucks, the backend ART sucks, the process pausing system can’t hold most of your app views because reasons, Samsung removed OEM unlocking, Google has a stranglehold on decade old RCS with only google messages supporting such a protocol (wtf???), AOSP is functionally dead, Gapps has been eating the left side of your homepage for years, etc etc.
I’m thinking about getting some handheld and making it into a PDA, like those upcoming DS-like consoles, and then maybe just get a pocket modem for phone/internet.
Why cant we be trusted with installing apps on our phones? Its my device, ill do what I want!
Its so dumb.
Just wait until they start pushing this with computers too. We have continually coddled normies by dumbing shit down instead of pushing them to be smarter. No doubt they’ll look at this as a good thing too.
Once ARM on PC takes off it’s over.
x86 is far too ingrained for that to happen. Even if it takes over on the consumer side of things, enterprise will still be stuck on x86 and you know how difficult it is to get them to change. The odds of it dying is exceedingly low.
We then have RISC-V computer by Pine64 running Libre-ICEBlock
There are plenty of ARM on PC examples and there will always be an alternative option that is open there. It’s too entrenched.
We need to free mobile devices with function distros like mobian/postmarketos that are fully functional.
Meh, Linux. There’s an alternative for those who want it, not a big deal. Smartphones, and most ARM devices are just weird to me. Device specific images, flashing, crap. Why can’t they just be PC-like?
Arm is slowly advancing on pcs… We’ll have bootlocked pcs in no time
Its so dumb.
It is not dumb, it is a smart business move that can only be made by a monopoly.
They literally just settled with FTC and now they got blank check to fuck the plebs.
It will get so much worse.
All the “Western” Empires are in decline. A lot of Europe, Australia, Canada, USA are all doing this shit at the same time clearly in cooperation with one another for anti privacy.
The corporations meanwhile want their increasingly walled in gardens and diseased governments won’t stop them as long as they get their back doors and data mines.
edit:
Reminded me of something. I was watching one of the few FuriOS reviews on YouTube, and the guy happened to be Australian. He took a moment to mention that he couldn’t use the phone at all on specific mobile service providers because they only allowed white-listed pre-approved hardware.
That’s pretty sickening.
and one country stands to benefit from this, and likely is behind the sudden all these countries doing it.
All the “Western” Empires are in decline.
Its why I’m slowly losing my will to live.
Not only that, I got the newest android update yesterday and it automatically, without my consent, took my fingerprint and face
What the fuck?
Right? I put in a complaint from the system feedback tool, but I don’t expect a response. Between the way Google is roping off Android and killing dependent open source OS’s, and my relative lack of money, I’m only seeing privacy options dwindle
if only…
As part of this so-called improved verification, Google should also be held liable for any damages caused by malicious applications.
but no, regulators won’t do shit and they’ll have the cake and eat it too
governments are becoming the puppets of big tech, in 50 years we’ll have night city IRL
Snow Crash’s world is here…
"Google, however, has decided anonymity is too risky. "
The rest of the sane universe appear to be deciding Google is too risky.
Sorry for knitpicking, but saying “the rest of the sane world” implies Google is also sane.
Sane => Worry Google is a threat
Worry Google is a threat =/> Sane
The cognitive dissonance with saying that the current state of Android is “too risky” without giving a single example of why it supposedly is.
i hope this shit gets hacked and cracked to allow the install of any apk so quickly.
guess i aint upgrading anymore. congrats google you made your own os less safe
😁
guess i aint upgrading anymore.
Oh, no, this will be pushed to devices. Ever seen the “your device has new features”?
also remove
com.wssyncmldmto forcibly prevent your phone from updatingCAREFUL: when you reset, android updates itself to the newest version.
Linux Phone it is.
If truly wish that were the way forward.
As it stands, name a good one that works with current apps and isn’t a battery hog. 🤷♂️
$25? lol no, my next phone fill be either Linux or a flip phone.
I have 2 cheap options I could recommend for Custom ROMS:
- Moto G 5G 2024 $140 runs Lineage OS (I have this)
- CMF Phone 1 $290 runs e/OS, has OLED display, overall a better phone than the cheap moto.
I’m not sure about “Linux” atm, there are still more apps for Custom Roms than you’d find for Linux that’s optimized for mobile use.
This is so fucking bad.
Can’t install apps offline on my own phone 🤯
Just when I thought that I cannot possibly hate Google even more, I see D. Veloper.
