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TheMiddleManyesterday at 10:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

Relevant: https://keepandroidopen.org/

> Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.


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spaqintoday at 2:29 AM

Man, all of these little steps Google is taking to take the control away from the users, not to take over the world or anything else, but to force on you more accurate advertisements. What are we even doing?

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hedoratoday at 1:39 AM

Any word as to whether this will apply to GrapheneOS? If I had to choose, I'd block apps that did comply with this BS.

paxysyesterday at 10:13 PM

Doesn’t Apple do the same?

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