We shut really get a go fund me or something alike to sue google over its anti competitive behavior. Imagine if a small portion of people would donate and most devs will join in. We might stand a very small change to do something…
Did you see how difficult it was for “Stop Killing Games” to get momentum and be considered by regulators? And that was arguing for products you’ve already paid for.
Google will argue “security concerns” and point at Apple’s practices and easily get a free pass from regulators.
There needs to be an alternative to Android and Apple. Money may be better spent on funding non-Pixel hardware that can use Graphene.
But the thing is that they are not really making Android more secure with this policy.
They are still allowing APKs signed with debug keys to work… so the only alternative now for any developer that doesn’t want to register with Google is gonna be using those debug credentials to sign their app releases. I expect shipping APKs with debug keys will become more common, resulting in objectively a more unsafe Android ecosystem.
This is not gonna stop rogue APKs from outside Google’s store, it’s just gonna make them less secure, since being signed with a debug key means a malicious APK from a different source can produce another version of the app as an “update” and supplant the original.
This is not gonna stop alternative stores either, in fact, it will make it more important to use stores (as opposed to installing apks from github or so), since at least that way they can still implement alternative methods to check package authenticity before installing, even when using debug keys.
None of that logic matters man. Regulators don’t understand this shit. Do you think the UK’s online age restrictions make anyone safer? It’s all bullshit for their own purposes.
or just start a campaign that costs nothing: a petition to each local politician, one to the agency that regulates anti-trust, anti-monopoly stuff.
I’m kind of shocked that China hasn’t sold us phones and apps that bypass some of thee American or western things we hate so much. It would seem China would encourage western dissent.
We shut really get a go fund me or something alike to sue google over its anti competitive behavior. Imagine if a small portion of people would donate and most devs will join in. We might stand a very small change to do something…
Fdroid are:
So I think these are preferred avenues of action right now.
Did you see how difficult it was for “Stop Killing Games” to get momentum and be considered by regulators? And that was arguing for products you’ve already paid for.
Google will argue “security concerns” and point at Apple’s practices and easily get a free pass from regulators.
There needs to be an alternative to Android and Apple. Money may be better spent on funding non-Pixel hardware that can use Graphene.
The EU got Apple to open up sideloading. Why would they not stop Google from suddenly doing the same?
Graphene’s team is already in communications with an Android OEM, fortunately.
But the thing is that they are not really making Android more secure with this policy.
They are still allowing APKs signed with debug keys to work… so the only alternative now for any developer that doesn’t want to register with Google is gonna be using those debug credentials to sign their app releases. I expect shipping APKs with debug keys will become more common, resulting in objectively a more unsafe Android ecosystem.
This is not gonna stop rogue APKs from outside Google’s store, it’s just gonna make them less secure, since being signed with a debug key means a malicious APK from a different source can produce another version of the app as an “update” and supplant the original.
This is not gonna stop alternative stores either, in fact, it will make it more important to use stores (as opposed to installing apks from github or so), since at least that way they can still implement alternative methods to check package authenticity before installing, even when using debug keys.
None of that logic matters man. Regulators don’t understand this shit. Do you think the UK’s online age restrictions make anyone safer? It’s all bullshit for their own purposes.
Maybe see if the EFF has something in the works and domate to them
or just start a campaign that costs nothing: a petition to each local politician, one to the agency that regulates anti-trust, anti-monopoly stuff. I’m kind of shocked that China hasn’t sold us phones and apps that bypass some of thee American or western things we hate so much. It would seem China would encourage western dissent.