How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen maybe it will finally focus peoples minds on directing adequate resorces to refining (to consumer ready level) a linux mobile os. And focus the minds of lawmakers to break the duopoly by legislating that apps must be available to download and run outside the US duopoly (banking and id apps).
I was hoping a tech conglomerate would emerge to fork android and maintain a free version, but that's unrealistic. I think Android is a gonner at this point.
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@voxel @keepandroidopen Thinking about trying to create content about it... any interest?
@yoasif @voxel @keepandroidopen I'm interested
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen my feelings aren't one of the options: "A hassle for me, might deter low effort scams, doesn't address the scams and malware present in the official store, but not the worst solution". is that too-nuanced an opinion?
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen more than a solution, this is more of a "ok, we'll allow you to do it but in our own terms" kind of thing. Combined with propaganda to scare people from doing it and a ton of handicaps to actually do it.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
Not "terrible" because we need a push to have googleless devices. Other than this, yes, it is really bad.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen as a contributor to non-Android open source projects, there will never be an end to software freedom. It's just that freedoms will be removed from specific projects, like Android, while the rest of the open source world continues on as if nothing ever happened.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen I'm a contractor at Google, currently (reluctantly) writing documentation to support the verification rollout. Was full time with Android before the mass layoffs started.
I stopped trusting Android to be better than iPhones when they stopped selling Pixel phones with headphone jacks.
I stopped trusting Google to care about its users when they added genAI to their codebase.
And I still have to get up and go to work and pretend I'm happy to be there. -
@keepandroidopen I'm a contractor at Google, currently (reluctantly) writing documentation to support the verification rollout. Was full time with Android before the mass layoffs started.
I stopped trusting Android to be better than iPhones when they stopped selling Pixel phones with headphone jacks.
I stopped trusting Google to care about its users when they added genAI to their codebase.
And I still have to get up and go to work and pretend I'm happy to be there.@keepandroidopen honestly I feel like the harbinger at this point. I was also required to document Manifest v3, which killed adblockers on Chrome.
I really hope y'all can at least pressure them to provide a real opt-out process, because it's hard for me to imagine them walking this back entirely. There's folks in there who really believe it'll be good for protecting users with no downside.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen No one trusts Google? Weird, I thought there will be at least one Google maniac lol
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
I feeling I was lied to and cheated on in a relationship I spent YEARS defending #degoogle
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen
Let's hope it will just pish people to buy an degoogled phone... -
I never felt the desire to sideload an app, so why should I care either way?
@sibrosan @keepandroidopen You sound like a MAGAt when someone is discussing someone's rights and they say "Doesn't affect me, why should I care?". Makes you sound like a shitty human.... Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen Well, from what Ive saw on SOG at least the Advanced Workflow or whatever name is decent enough after we pushed.
I dont think google would do anything like that without pressure. Now we have to keep pressure to make sure they keep their promisse.
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That is part of it, but fighting is also about creating social pushback. When we’re loud, bring attention to these changes, and refuse to accept them as the new normal, we change the math for them. Google needs to know that locking down Android is a PR disaster that drives their loyal users and developers away.
@terminaltilt
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
It still doesnt completely rule out scammer attacks,
So why even so harshLike scammers could just use a verified app for their use case
Besides I have never heard of a scammer making people sideload apps on android
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen This sounds tethered to internet, contradicting their Nov 2025 blog promise "ultimately, it puts the choice in their [users] hands." In some areas, esp during or after wars, internet is not avail. Tethered =/= open. I really hope I'm wrong.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen this is definitely a VERY bad thing
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen This is the moment to realize that developers contributed to the wrong company "Google" and left Linux behind, yet better late than nothing. Linux is there truly free and open.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen Good, it puts pressure on the free/libre/open folks to build something better.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen This is one of the key advantages of android compared to iOS
