Google cracks down! APKs, ROMs, and Emulators banned — is Android freedom over?
m.economictimes.comIf I am already using a rooted but proprietary smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S23), downloading my apps from other sources than Google Play, how would Google be able to control what I do with it? If necessary, I could just stay on my current OS build as well. All in all, while politically and philosophically, Google’s new policy is bad, I don’t feel threatened by it with my current understand of the situation and technology…
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Reversing malicious changes is an extra burden. Google has been slowly making everything worse for years and the forks haven’t been able to do much about it.
In have e/OS on the Fairphone 6 that comes degoogled. It’s great. I was pissed that microG had calls home, but I just uninstalled it and everything is fine. Most people probably need MicroG for banking, purchases, etc. It could probably harm their sales to not include it. Even if I didn’t delete it, there are so many security layers in this thing and so many obfuscation efforts that I don’t know that it matters. I use NextDNS and deny all Google queries too. So at this point, my battery life is so good that I now am even more alarmed at how many resources are used by corporate bloatware and malware. I still had 97% battery at the end of the day recently. Previously, I frequently charged during the day.