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That will turn out just great.

Unless they completely ditch (or be forced to ditch) the developer notarization crap they’re pushing for, all these talks and “registered appstores” will stay just pure bullshit to distract you from what’s important: https://keepandroidopen.org/

Same with LibreTube.

I guess they already have more than enough downtime…

Precisely. Take care of your kid, don’t offload your job to corporations, cause then it will become their kid, not yours.

This Voile thing looks extremely practical. Gotta get my hands on something like this. Thanks for sharing!

No need to worry! Soon they’ll bring mandatory age/identity verifcation, and the kids won’t see such content randomly… they’ll be specifically targeted with it xD

No worries @sbeak, I just wanted to add a bit more to your comment for the people who don’t have experience with GrapheneOS or other FOSS ROMs. Also, now CalyxOS is back which it great :)

You obviously should ditch the package manager and install everything with ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install. And no, I didn’t miss sudo in front of make install, I missed it in front of su - :)

The problem with regulators is that they a) gladly suck corporate dicks, b) gladly opt-in for the same authoritarian methods of population control, and c) gladly ignore common sense altogether.

The only important question is: will it support GrapheneOS? Which we don’t yet have answer for.

Who could’ve thought that gender-washing companies are hostile to underrepresented genders? It’s almost as much of a surprise as that green-washing companies are hostile to the environment!

/s

Surprise!

I think that would be the next step, once they get enough idiots to hook onto that shit. For now, I believe, the ads are only on the platforms to which they’ve already hooked everyone. But I’m also an optimist, huh xD

Great overview! One thing to add here is this amazing comparison of the afrorementioned options: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Regarding GrapheneOS, there are a few things that distinguish it from the rest:

• the devs are really paranoid in the good way: it’s to receive security updates even before official pixel OS, a lot of OS level security hardening, a lot of features developed specifically to reduce attack surface (e.g. ability to completely disable USB, periodical reboots etc)
• it supports some exclusive privacy features (e.g. full per-app network kill-switch, contacts & storage scopes, location rerouting for play services etc) aimed to protect your data from crapware you might be forced to install
• it supports official play store and play services but in the most restricted way possible — they’ve developed a shim that allows to run it without any privileges and any permissions; you can also install it only under a completely separate user to fully separate it from your data
• in terms of being barebones, it is like this out of the box but you can install absolutely anything on it (unless it depends on “strict” play integrity protection)

“They’ve stolen our rightfully stolen data!”, said the spokesman.

They can just go fuck themselves.

Oh my god! That’s disgusting! How?