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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 days ago

Your phone is about to stop being yours. — Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, sign…

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Your phone is about to stop being yours. — Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, sign…

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 days ago
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    17 days ago

    Not directly, but they’ve been making other moves to make life difficult for such users — such as significantly delaying releasing the open source parts they’re supposed to, potentially leaving users on insecure versions for far longer.

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      Also things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS

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      They’re also planning to roll out captchas on websites that only work with Android or iOS.

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