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rustyredox@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Android_Developer_Verification

  • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
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    Look up Australia’s whitelisting system.

    If you phone isn’t manually approved, it won’t be able to connect to a cell tower, not even for emergency calls.

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      not even for emergency calls.

      That’s wild.

      • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw (sources in video description)

        If your phone isn’t manually approved, its assumed your phone doesn’t support 4g/5g, therefore, blocked.

        4G/5G phones have already been blocked

        Fairphone isn’t certified in Australia, Pinephone also isn’t, nor Librem 5.

        Custom ROMs on an approved phone might work for now, but they could potentially start verifying OS in the future if the autocratization trend continues. Also, manufacturers could starts start locking the bootloader.

        The best realistic way forward is have two devices, one is the “normie” phone, the other is your own pocket PC running a Libre OS.

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      What the hell

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