sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 days agoYour 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…keepandroidopen.orgexternal-linkmessage-square123linkfedilinkarrow-up1604arrow-down19cross-posted to: opensource@programming.devlinux@programming.devprivacy@programming.devopensource@programming.dev
arrow-up1595arrow-down1external-linkYour 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…keepandroidopen.orgsanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 days agomessage-square123linkfedilinkcross-posted to: opensource@programming.devlinux@programming.devprivacy@programming.devopensource@programming.dev
minus-squareWhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up24·17 days agoNot 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.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·17 days agoAlso things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS
minus-squareother_cat@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoThey’re also planning to roll out captchas on websites that only work with Android or iOS.
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.
Also things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS
They’re also planning to roll out captchas on websites that only work with Android or iOS.