How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
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@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
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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
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. -
How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen The era of seizing evidence with your own eyes
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@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.@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?
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@keepandroidopen I'd be interested how many people vote for the option with "Google prioritising user interests" and I salute your humour. 🫡
@keepandroidopen 37 people love being snarky
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
@keepandroidopen we need a real open alternative for mobile devices, like a single linux phone but that is really working ad can be purchable for a reasonable price.
Moreover we should push the European Union to don't leave the power on the corporations but putting solid rules about ownership: Google can do whatever they want to their OS, but I should be able to change the shipped OS and use "safe" apps that now runs only on Play Protect, like banking.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
We hope all participants put the #keepandroidopen banner on every domain they can! So the world knows about what Google is up to.
