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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago

They can't even handle the apps on their store...

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

If they end up blocking f-droid I'm bombing them

[–] sakuragasaki46@feddit.it 5 points 8 hours ago

I'll provide the explosives

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So say you want to move to one of these other OS's graphene or whatever. Do those work with modern banking apps? Pretty much the only reason they haven't done The switch so far is because Bank of America would tell me to fuck right off as far as I know

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

you can pack them on the magisk denylist and then they might work flawlessly.

this has never failed me but i would still not recommend it.

these banks and Google have no hesitation to cut your access to your money one day. they own your way of interacting with the web now and they don't like what you're attempting here

[–] sakuragasaki46@feddit.it 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd go Lineage / Graphene (?) next year

[–] xav@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago

Been there done that. Will never go back to Google.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 3 points 9 hours ago

This a massive overreach and so stupid when nowadays apple even relaxed their limitations a little, I heard that iOS users don't need to jailbreak anymore to use outside apps. What will be the point of android?

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 7 points 12 hours ago

The android dream is over. It was fun while it lasted. My next phone will be linux

[–] whalebiologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about jailbreaking android phones yet, but are there resources for getting into doing this to my current android and taking responsibility for security myself?

[–] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's called rooting on Android, but you may have issues with banking apps blocking your phone, you will need a locked older phone to use them.

[–] whalebiologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

ok that's good to know. Thankfully I'm only reliant on my phone for receiving text messages for 2FA and navigation.

[–] dontblink@feddit.it 1 points 10 hours ago

Can we still load custom roms? It's been a while since my last install of Lineage OS.

If that's not an option either, well, Linux phones I'm coming!

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 10 points 17 hours ago

Use alternative ROMs while that's still an option.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 31 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

So Android is pointless now?
No, really. If I'm gonna be dragged kicking and screaming into the walled garden, why would I go with Google's joke of an ecosystem instead of much nicer and better integrated Apple garden?

I might as well start carrying one of those weird branded ultra-tiny laptops from AliExpress and some used, older iPhone for the 2 apps I need.
Fuck it. Throw out the baby, the bathwater, the bathtub, the whole damn thing. Fuuuuck it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

i have a feeling that google largely gave up on making a decent phone for a while, all they want is your data, plus to put thier AI into everything to offset the cost of using AI.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

To be fair, they never cared about making a decent phone. They have always just wanted your data. They are a marketing company and you are the product up for sale.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 77 points 1 day ago
[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can we have mainstream Linux phones now. Fairphone is nice

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 127 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For your security we're going to block your access to FOSS and apps that let you avoid our ads. This is totally not a business decision. Pinky swear.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

and avoid our datamining capabilities, and the intrusive AI we keep pushing on unwanted customers. we knew thier android core app(spyware) was the first step. they probably want that to permanantly installed into everyones phone.

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[–] mub@lemmy.ml 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought the EU said that Google and apple have to permit other app stores? If that is the case they'd have to allow side loading in effect.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How can that be legal?

Because Apple does it

Fuck.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 34 points 1 day ago

Wasn't it made illegal on Europe?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 18 hours ago

they saw how apple is profitable from being completely walled in garden.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 124 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.

You're not a fucking airport, Google!

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[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 91 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No one talking about how this could completely annihilate open source .apk development? First off the lead dev has to get identity verified to get a key, which will reduce the number of devs willing to push through friction to start a project. Then when the key is issued and it is posted to the repository, what keeps anyone from grabbing it and using it for another repo? We'll they have an official app registration of some kind, ok, what about version control? Does every new version have to be registered before it can be loaded and tested? Same for forks?

This is about to be a terrible mess, Google is assassinating FOSS with this.

[–] Awkwardparticle@programming.dev 8 points 11 hours ago

It will kill everyone that is playing around with the phones. I have done a couple mobile projects where I just sideloaded the package I created to quickly test it and to demo it to people. Now that I can't do that why would I develop for your platform by choice.

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[–] BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

I heard that they're probably going to be using the Google Play store and probably similar modules to play protect to enforce this. So the question becomes will disabling the Google Play store bypass this? It outright kills play protect dialogue as well as its app disabling capability as a whole since play protect is part of Google Play store.

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