The EU would like you all to bend a little lower and gag
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/18
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Maybe this would be a push for a real open source based phone. GNU/Linux phones needed this push to really get more popularity
You can't sideload on Linux.
...because why "sideload"when frontload works directly? I guess..maybe it's your cuckold fetish to watch someone else nerd your box...
Don't even try to get me started on windoze until the fucking Epstein files are releeased.
Not if age verification apps have any say.
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/18
I hope this means the resurgence of cheap flip phones. I have no use for a pocket computer that I can't use like a computer. I went with Android because iOS was useless, and now Android is about to be made equally useless.
Will be interesting to see how many people move over to iOS now that Google is trashing Android's redeeming feature.
I've enabled the advanced protection and it's so easy to turn off to install a single app and turn back on but I haven't seen it as an issue. Is there something new now? Because I'm not seeing an issue here.
Yes they are, for all intents and purposes, making it impossible to turn off advanced protection. The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off
The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off.
Wait, when did this become a thing? I've had developer mode turned on on my phone for ages without any issues.
Well fuck that then. I guess I'm going to have to get a graphene OS put on this mother fucker.
That's really too bad because I did appreciate all the other features of advanced protection except for that.
Presumably, rooted users/custom ROMs should be able to get around this, but how many developers are going to continue to support development and/or release .apk files if it's only a tiny subset of the userbase they can reach?
Well, I never gave them permission to install Google Chrome. Maybe they should start thinking about their self first...
Still sucks for the OSS community as a whole though.
Didn't Google just fuck with them by making it really hard to developed graphene for pixel 10? If graphene os depends on the aging fleet of pixel 9s and older, they're a few years away from being screwed too.
Ive had grapheneOS for years, is every customer android rom done for? I may just get a "dumbphone" or maybe back to iphone? I wish I could just have no phone but obviously need close family to contact me at anytime
It's very strange that you are considering moving to a dumbphone or an even more locked-down platform because google is locking down android.
They're taking away a vital feature, so you want even more taken away?
What would you recommend? Apple tracks a ton of data but also blocks 3rd party trackers at least
I would recommend staying away from apple if control over your device is something you value.
Linux phones
I have my Pixel 9 pro with GrapheneOS. Google ain't telling me shit about what I can or can't install.
Are the banking apps still blocked? How's the camera? It's been a while since I installed grapheneos...
I recently did graphene on a new pixel. My bank app (Chase, in the US) did not work immediately but did after lifting Graphene's default app restrictions, strictly for that one app.
Namely "exploit protection compatibility mode" being enabled did the trick.
Camera on the 9a is fine, but I'm not a photographer. I take photos of serial numbers and server rooms. /Shrug
I use a credit union, and they whitelisted the OS about a week after I told them about it.
The camera is really good.
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I've been an android user for a long ass time. I want to install grapheneOS on my next phone since my current Samsung S23 won't allow that. After that, what would be my options?
Any of the recent Pixels, though I'm not sure about the 10. And that's it.
I'm running Graphene on a 9 and it's solid.
I'm not sure about the 10.
Exactly the problem; current phones are good for the short-to-medium term, for anyone willing to use aging hardware, but what are the long-term prospects?
I'm hoping this will increase true open source phone OS development, like a Linux phone, but we'll see. If there's a way to really get Android or iOS apps onto a Linux phone (after these changes) then true open-source apps can fill most use-cases, but everyday users can still use the latest games/apps they expect to "just work". That might be the ideal future option, at least until if/when Linux gets enough market share to get its own mainstream support (like the Steam Deck has brought to gaming).
I mean, this is terrible garbage, but if Google is going to fully ruin Android then at least the news being out might push resources towards mobile Linux faster.
I'm actually using an old iphone. I look at it like an appliance to connect with mainstream institutions (including local people like other school parents), and take pictures. I have other appliances of varying complexity up to and including my car that run systems I know nothing about as well. I'm not happy about that either, but these are the compromises that happen in the real world.
The closed system isn't appealing to me, but the mass market appeal of the device is. A stunning majority of my direct acquaintances use it. It can streamline interactions sometimes.
And you know, I don't trust them of course, but at least Apple has actually said out loud in high profile presentations that privacy is a fundamental human right, and they always point out when they can keep personal things on-device. And they fight orders to unlock phones. Plus they make their money on hardware sales and services for the most part.
Google, on the other hand, exists pretty much solely to vacuum up data and keep us online and cloud-connected. They typically get major points for interoperability from me, but then I ask how often is it just a cynical embrace/extend/extinguish strategy?
Any big mainstream phone now is just a locked down disposable product of a megacorp. It's also a data scraping tendril of said megacorp loaded with sensors and a fast data connection. And now as a bonus for those of us in the US - it's probably a convenient backdoor warrantless wiretap that the oligarchs can just accidentally forward the government the passwords to.
My COMPUTER runs Linux. I can't wait until I can have a real linux computer in the form factor of a high quality phone.
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Take the one thing Android has over Apple away. Why go Android then? Might as well go with the device that has close ties to the hardware. Guess we are going back to the days when only nerds that knew how to flash better roms will be using Android.
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