The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

[inaba@blahaj.zone]

@fdroidorg@floss.social @marcprux@mastodon.social i just want big brother not watching everyone's every move, holy hell.
i only use ggle services because of how popular they are, while minimizing what ggle i use

[es0mhi@tilde.zone]

@crazyeddie @fdroidorg

Thank you for the clarification and apologies for my misinterpretation.

I have no idea about the legal situation in the US. But perhaps the fact that you can see no ground for action against this unscrupulousness, shows what we are dealing with: a (capitalist) system that has become completely detached from the true interests of its members, unchallengeable and without alternative

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux

Does anyone know how this affects phones that already have F-Droid and apps from there installed?

Will some Android/Google Update make them stop working all of a sudden? Or not let me update them anymore? Or will this affect only future Android versions?

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@Preuk @fdroidorg @marcprux

Can you give me a link where you contacted in the EU and how? I am a bit overwhelmed on where to report my concerns.

[h4890@alive.bar]

@fdroidorg @marcprux I think it is useless to keep android open. As long as google controls it, it is a sinking ship.

Much better to move to other alternatives like Jolla or other linuxbased options and rebuild from scratch.

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@v_d_richards @Preuk https://keepandroidopen.org/ ?

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@v_d_richards No info on that, no info on anything actually.

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@simx72 Custom Android distros can and do choose to free their users from such shackles.

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@nathanael @GrapheneOS Custom Android distros are not affected because they care about the freedom of their users.

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@oldherl The little X will dismiss it, if annoying

[henri_francois@pouet.chapril.org]

@Framasoft est- ce que çà concerne uniquement l'Os Android "Google"? Ou est-ce que ce sera valable pour toures les version Android " degoogleisées" comme lineageOs ou /e/os par exemple ?

[nathanael@exquisite.social]

@fdroidorg not sure i get what you're saying. we shouldn't support grapheneos cause they are not affected?!

Support These Projects
These projects are working to provide much-needed competition in the mobile hardware space.

cc @GrapheneOS

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@nathanael @GrapheneOS We should be allies in the Android ecosystem (specially during these days) but they choose to be frenemies for some reason.

Fun fact: We talked with more GOS users at FOSDEM than stock Android users.

[nathanael@exquisite.social]

@fdroidorg because they decided to be enemies you don't list them? this is childish. they might have an opinion you don't like. so what? get over it. saying this:

These projects are working to provide much-needed competition in the mobile hardware space.

and not listing grapheneos makes you the bad guys in my book...

@GrapheneOS

[martintheg@mastodon.social]

@jay @fdroidorg @marcprux Yes, but all the Tizen products shown are ones that are NOT phones, and are hard to install your own apps, like fridges, televisions, monitors, washing machines.....?

[angusart@pouet.chapril.org]

@fdroidorg @marcprux super chiant ce Google qui vérouile tout.

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@fdroidorg @Preuk

Thanks for the link

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@fdroidorg @Preuk

I still have problems to understand what happens with apps like those of fossify, or DuckDuckGo for example, that i downloaded and maintain over F-Droid, but that are also available on Playstore and thus should be under the "verified" category.

These should still work but not the F-Droid Store App itself so i need to update via a website manually???

I am not an IT person. I genuelly have problems understanding this, despite having read the infos i found so far.