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‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near (www.techradar.com)
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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I am not buying a new phone every day. I have already purchased the phone and now the functionality is being changed.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

You could technically stop updating. But thats not feasible since it would put your device security to peril. Until or only if we were to use a FOSS system would we be able to chose which parts of the updates we don't accept. It sucks but google can basically do anything they want to android and if you're on a proprietary vendor you're stuck with that patch