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Your phone is about to stop being yours. — Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, sign… (keepandroidopen.org)
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[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not directly, but they've been making other moves to make life difficult for such users — such as significantly delaying releasing the open source parts they're supposed to, potentially leaving users on insecure versions for far longer.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 hours ago

Also things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS