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Official announcement: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-... More info: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... Personally...we all know the Play Store is chock full of malicious garbage, so the verification requirements there don't do jack to protect users. The way I see it, this is nothing but a power grab, a way…
I've grown increasingly hateful towards both my Android and iOS devices over the last decade. The platforms themselves are increasingly user-hostile, and their appstores are crammed full of shitty, privacy-invading, telemetry-hoovering, dopamine-triggering, ad-filled, lipstick-covered apps that are often garbage compared to the pioneering days of mobile. I miss the days of my old Palm Pilot. Is anyone working on fixi…
Oh how I wish I could buy a Nokia N900 16 Pro Max and use Maemo 13
What they want is to get rid of apps like YouTube Vanced that are making them lose money (and other Play Store apps)
Will once again re-up the concept of a “right to root access”, to prevent big corps from pulling this bs over and over again: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access
Absolutely disgusting. No reason to keep using Android then.
China offering more freedom than the supposed free world
- "Free" search - yay, let's all use it for everything and even make a verb out of it
- Email - such nice guys, Google - free email forever, what could go wrong if I have my 95% of all my info there
- Maps - yeah, let's all depend on these free Google maps with our lives
- Chrome - ofc, heck yes, let's all use their browser, it's the best and free - no need for anything else
- Google account login for EVERYTHING - so convenient! Google Authenticator app, Google Wallet - yes, more!
- Free mobile operating system - nice, take that, Apple!
Google has taken over a large portion of our lives, step by step - good enough services, on global scale, for free, until they became essential.
They are not evil, like they were never good - they are a company, and in the current socio-economic structure, that means having a duty to use their position to enrich their shareholders - and absolutely have no interest in people's wellbeing or morality or opinions or reputation - unless it temporarily serves to do so more / better.
I'm in no way trying to defend them. Just, with all the futility of it, pointing out how hyper-capitalism we've built/allowed to grow, has reached the stage where it's practically impossible for the "free market" to react / provide solutions that people want. Now the big players decide what people get.
In this case, you can no longer have a high quality phone of a good manufacturer and install on it what you want. Small manufacturer catering to that demographic won't get government certification, you can't have your e.g. Samsung and install a ROM anymore, and you can't install your app freely on Android unless Google lets you. That's all just in a tiny sliver of space.
Our Tetris board barely has any room left for choice and actions.
Maybe Elon Musk can save us /s
But China does, and not tomorrow, not in the future, but today already, by selling unrestricted devices