How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?

[arh@expressional.social]

@keepandroidopen

Not "terrible" because we need a push to have googleless devices. Other than this, yes, it is really bad.

[lattera@bsd.network]

@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.

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@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.

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@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.

[urun@mstdn.social]

@keepandroidopen No one trusts Google? Weird, I thought there will be at least one Google maniac lol

[thetearmiser@mastodon.social]

I feeling I was lied to and cheated on in a relationship I spent YEARS defending #degoogle

[liberteouvriere@h4.io]

@keepandroidopen
Let's hope it will just pish people to buy an degoogled phone...

[thanatos@techhub.social]

@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.

[h0m3@mastodon.social]

@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.

[spacekite@mastodon.social]

@terminaltilt
"Away" where would we go?

[zenxarch@mastodon.social]

@keepandroidopen

It still doesnt completely rule out scammer attacks,
So why even so harsh

Like 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

[jjr90@techhub.social]

@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.

[onlykievv@bonito.cafe]

@keepandroidopen this is definitely a VERY bad thing

[mbadr@techhub.social]

@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.

[isurandil@mastodon.online]

@keepandroidopen Good, it puts pressure on the free/libre/open folks to build something better.

[yuwash@eu.mastodon.green]

@keepandroidopen This is one of the key advantages of android compared to iOS

[plantfeest@mastodon.social]

@keepandroidopen @AnimalRebellion @ExtinctionR hbu?

[jutta_wa@kirche.social]

@keepandroidopen
It's terrible because I can't change to a free OS. My phone would allow it, but I would loose banking and mobility apps.

[myroot0@mastodon.social]

@keepandroidopen The era of seizing evidence with your own eyes

[maxmalrichtig@social.tchncs.de]

@jutta_wa Are you REALLY sure about that? I never had any issues with these apps on my phone (Fairphones running IODE or /e/OS). How did you find out about your specific restrictions?

@keepandroidopen