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Android: global rollout of age verification tools for developers
(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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...and time to upgrade toa dumb phone.
Anyone got good recommendations?
IDK, but i looked briefly a couple years ago and I wasn't happy.
Many of todays "dumb" phones run android just in a locked down mode where you can't install apps. There are a couple other OS options, I can't remember the names of those now. But they still had a full OS. Just running in a restricted mode.
To me dumbphone means just that. Dumb! No OS. Just enough h/w to connect to the cell network, like those HUGE oldschool cell phones in the 80's. Except small for pockets now. Once my dumbphone runs android, it opens up attack surface I don't want.
But I didn't spent too much time looking. So could be my seach skills failed me.