Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”
If this actually happens, my next phone will probably be a dumb phone, unless I can find a true linux phone.
Wait and see, then panic if affected.
Switching to a Linux phone
What options are there there?
Dunno yet, but I’ve quit using better products than Android for smaller offenses than this. I’ll probably settle down to do some research tonight.
I’m probably being too optimistic, but they’ve gotta have a switch in dev settings to disable this check, right? I really hope they’re not truly, full stop, not allowing you to side load apps that don’t meet this stupid requirement.
FFS they just had that awful Pixel 10 launch event where they talked about Android being open and what not.
A while back, there were rumors of Microsoft banning piracy from windows, then it turned out to be a nothing burger. I hope this is the same.
To add do your FFS:
Aren’t they also adding a proper Linux Terminal with the next Android? You do this but ban installing non-store apps? Make it make sense!
Not updating my phone for now. Installing a custom ROM on my next phone
Im starting to get to a point where I don’t even want to have a phone anymore. Like fuck people in general lol I don’t have many who call or text anyway. The browsing I do I can just stick to my PC.
If google blocks my access to Monster Strike I’m buying a Huawei probably
Unless there’s an FOSS OS friendly phone these days, that would be cool to try
Im sorta lazy. Did not switch to linux until windows 11 even though I should have after windows 7. I use the android that came on the phone because im lazy but I have to be able to sideload so this may turn out to be androids windows 11.
Stay on GrapheneOS as long as I can, then look for an alternative OS like trying Linux phones again and maybe they will be ready for prime time by then (hope springs eternal and all that).
Start watching YouTube in Firefox, I guess. I can’t deal with ads and I’m not paying one of the richest companies in the world an ever increasing monthly fee for the rest of my life.
Were you not supposed to use firefox?
I’ve always been using firefox + unlock origin, never messed with apps because they are annoying.
I prefer YouTube ReVanced. It does a lot more than just block ads.
See, the way I’m thinking about it is that, I like my browsing to be non-persistent.
Ideally (if I actually remember to do OPSEC correctly that is), I would clear browsing data before leaving my house, so if some cop seizes it, they won’t be able to see all the stuff I watched, just a clean browser, same with Lemmy, it gets logged out and data cleared before I go somewhere I deem insecure. Apps can leave residues/temp-files. I just don’t like the idea of “Apps”.
(And of course, all traffic goes through VPN, and for Lemmy, also TOR.)
I also use Firefox focus as my default browser, but it doesn’t do ublock origin unfortunately. But everything is temporary for all those one off links you probably open.
Normal firefox can do the same, just set it to “delete browsing data on quit”
Ya but I don’t want to do that lol. I like having Firefox for my main browsing, but when people send me Instagram links and other garbage, I will open, view, and forget.
my plan is not updating my phone until the google plan is reversed.
Wait until it affects me. Just like when I ditched Chrome. Just like when I ditched Windows. I used Vanced long after they were stopped, didn’t switch to ReVanced until Vanced literally could not play anymore. I’m the latest adopter, for sure. By the time I make a change, the path of what I want to do has been well-tread by others.
So you’re ditching Android, for what? Is there an actual Linux phone you’re looking for, are are you gonna carry around a pocker-sized PC? (genuinely asking)
My plan is the stick to using older phones that google wont bother pushing the update out to. Forever if need be.
My LG Velvet 5G is still going strong. Hoping Lineage or Graphene will release a rom for it someday.
That device didn’t meet the requirements for GrapheneOS even when it was supported by the OEM. As of now, it is an EOL device and is highly insecure. https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
Don’t know yet! I would assume get a phone that supports Graphene or Lineage. But I’m not opposed to some PDA sized Pi Zero Frankenstein abomination if it does what I want it to.
So how long until celluar providers also say you have to have a trusted device to activate your SIM? Apple, Google, Samsung, automotive and Windows would be fine and they’d probably allow their branded or limited hotspots.
This would basically eliminate any Linux option (pc or phone), and DIY devices. I could see other OOB vendors getting on board to be certified to have a certificate issued to them.
Not impossible, but SIMs go in all kinds of devices nowadays including tons of generic IOT gadgets.
Lucky patcher will handle it, I suppose
Lucky Patcher still around?
Pray for lawsuits.
