The Play Integrity API has made it easier for apps to check whether you installed or bought them from Google Play.
        • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          You can degoogle on Android you know.

          only if your device is supported. Most aren’t…

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            42·
            2 months ago

            LineageOS with microg works for most devices

            Issue is that it is no secure. People should be buying pixels flashing calyx or graphene going forward for their next upgrade IMHO

            • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Issue is that it is no secure.

              Explain. I’m tired of hearing this boogeyman, tell me exactly how Lineage is “not secure” but Graphene is?

              Then maybe give me some examples of cases where that difference has actually been a problem.

              Because it feels like a lot of these “unsecure” things people hand-wring over are really just user freedoms they may use to hurt themselves, not actual vulnerabilities that can’t be avoided with common sense.

              • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
                24·
                2 months ago

                Primarily because bootloader is not lockable, plus delayed updates.

                Also, they do some weird thing with how it is developed. I think it is always in some weird “developer” state but I don’t remember details.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            42·
            2 months ago

            Apps that don’t work are usually the worst privacy offenders lol

            People will need to make a choice, corpos won’t make it easier for the slave

            • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I mean, you can be as snotty about this as you like, but it doesn’t change the fact this “choice” is basically between participate in the same digital world as most people do with the most popular, most supported, and highest value apps, vs only what you can use in F Droid or something?

              You’re calling them slaves but can you give them anything more appealing outside the walled garden than “privacy”? It’s not like everything on the play store has an F-Droid corollary. You’re basically telling them to dramatically reduce their own use case. Does that make them a slave?

      • Jalapeño Popper@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        If a phone can’t be flashed to a different OS, then it can be degoogled with adb via pc, or Shizuku + Canta directly on the phone. There are other apps besides Canta that also work, but Canta is the easiest for non-techies to use.

        Never buy an Apple product if you value sovereignty. Androids can be tweaked to cut out big brother.

          • Jalapeño Popper@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Google is overreaching, yet again. That’s the gist of it. They want to be a monopoly. Better to get out now, than to wait until they’re so engrained in our lives that they become a shadow government. Our best short-term fix is to break up the company like we did to AT&T. Our best long-term fix is to erraticate money and corporate influence from politics entirely.

              • Jalapeño Popper@lemmy.mlEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                There are more options, you just have to look. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, /e/OS… Android is not synonymous with Google. Android is open source. All the OSs I’ve listed are based off of Android, and are open source. Google has their own version of Android, which is closed source. But it’s just another OS based off of AOSP.