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If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...
  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    23 days ago

    This is such an overwhelming power grab in line with all the other crap they are currently pushing like disabling Manifest V2. The US urgently needs to ramp up their antitrust legislation, or else - if you extrapolate the current trajectories - they might soon be in a position where the US government has to do what google says and not the other way around

  • BewareOfIdiot@nord.pubEnglish
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    22 days ago

    What’s going on? Why does it feel like every megacorporation have become completely openly anti-consumer? Yes, companies have always been shady and doing everything for profit, but at least they did it subtly and backtracked as soon as the backlash came. Now they’re just shamelessly force feeding us spyware and “digital-only licenses revokable at any time”.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      21 days ago

      At first Google does plan to offer something called “advanced flow” that will let you install what you want. But this doesn’t address the chilling effect for developers (some are just getting out of Android rather than registering and paying Google), or the censorship power it hands to Google to make “undesirable” apps harder to obtain and install. And there’s no guarantee they won’t just withdraw “advanced flow” one day.

      https://developer.android.com//developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow

      The best way to avoid it is by installing an OS that doesn’t include the developer verification component.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        21 days ago

        Or leave Android altogether and get a Linux phone. You’ll have more control but it won’t be as slick.

        • Aproposnix@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Its not just about being slick. Real functionality will be lost as well as the lost ecosystem of android apps. I think Jolla is trying to bridge this divide by providing some proprietary android layer.

          But yeah, mobile Linux is defintely the goal.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    For a long time I thought side loading was something special because it didn’t say “installing software”, so it must be some very special procedure that is required for mobile devices because of limitations or requirements with the hardware, right?

    Yeah no, it was just a made up marketing term to push people away from installing their own software on their own devices

    Fuck all big tech companies