Is this still going to happen? What can we do?
Edit: Complain to your competent authorities here: https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/#consumers
Already switched to grapheneOS
Never was. Best option is to buy a phone that’s open from the start. Sadly not that many choices
That’s not the only problem. Open source apps will just die because 99% of people won’t download them. So they won’t bother writing them unless then can be listed on the Google Play store.
I honestly don’t think this is that big of a deal.
The people that want to still use unverified apps can do so after having to go through the flow once and never again. Those that don’t even know what that means can’t be easily coerced into installing a malicious app because of the security cooldown period.
This was a bigger issue back when the rumor was that no unverified apps could be installed under any circumstances. Now it’s completely overblown but the site seems to be doubling down instead.
I think people are just worried its going to escalate further from there. Google takes something away, gives part of it back. Then later they take a little more, give less back, etc…
If Google wasn’t directly incentivized to screw us over for infinite growth and profits I’d also believe them here, it won’t stop here, they’ll keep making it harder for us to control our own devices
until google removes it or adds even more hoops.
