Techlore put out this second video on Google’s September Decree:
Nobody affected.
Stock ROM people can keep using their apps while a developer who makes his living by an app has already given his personal data to Google.
Custom ROM people can install anything through an APK.
The only difference would be if the Play Store apps have a so strong attestation that can’t run on Custom ROMs at all.
In the last case you lose all the apps that actually track you like messaging apps, banking apps and email apps except if developers can bypass the restriction, for example WhatsApp informs you that you are on a custom ROM but works.
I would say that it’s good for us Google to have the personal data of someone who wants to deliver closed-source apps.
He talks about app developers leaving making apps for Android…maybe the mobile Linux spp development is about to explode!!
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You can’t leave a gigantic ecosystem, nobody cares about a small Linux audience that actually runs Android without the Android Framework to get the feeling that it is not Android.
Leaving the Android development means changing completely your carrier since there is no way to appeal to such a large user-base as the stock Android users.
We shall see what happens with bank apps as that concerns me. In USA bank tellers are being replaced by machines. Right now my bank app works in iodé and so does the web interface but most things with banking need to be done with a smartphone. I may eventually have to buy a normie phone for that!
They can even enforce Windows 11 on desktop through cryptographic verification in which case you’ll allso need a machine running Windows 11.
At this point technological surveillance is so strict that there is no point in using degoogled Android or Linux for privacy, it’s only for stability and more freedom to run software or tweak your system.
Anyone using a mobile phone is geographically trackable any moment and the amount of public cameras and surrounding stock devices is so huge that most of the time they can have your picture and voice live even without exploiting your device.
VPNs are probably state owned assets so privacy browsing is an illusion.
Considering that you actually have nothing to hide and it’s just a feeling that you don’t want to be observed then you can just use iphone and stock Android if you really need mobile internet and apps else you switch to a simple cheap call phone. In Europe you can still use the ancient green screen phones like Nokia 1100.
What country do u live in?
Sounds like surveillance is advanced there…if it is like that here, it is hidden.
I don’t think the USA has 3G to give those green screen phones internet..they were phasing that out.
I had one of those Nokia 1100 phones in 2003. Discontinued in USA and didn’t even support 3G. They were on 2G which is long gone in USA!