Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”
I’ll need to see what the fuck their answer for personal installs are…my pixel 10 comes in tomorrow so by the time I run the wheels off of it, I will know if I’m staying on android or moving to iOS and doing a $99 developer cert
Strongly Considering going back to a Prepaid burner style and just carrying a laptop everywhere.
I don’t need to be that connected.
Stay on GrapheneOS as long as I can, then look for an alternative OS like trying Linux phones again and maybe they will be ready for prime time by then (hope springs eternal and all that).
Im starting to get to a point where I don’t even want to have a phone anymore. Like fuck people in general lol I don’t have many who call or text anyway. The browsing I do I can just stick to my PC.
I sideload two apps and when I can’t use them anymore is when I can’t trust android. One of them is package disabler pro. I use it to keep androids bloat and spyware shutdown.
Shit bro that app is STILL working??? I remember running that on my LG and Samsung phones
Switching to a Linux phone
What options are there there?
Dunno yet, but I’ve quit using better products than Android for smaller offenses than this. I’ll probably settle down to do some research tonight.
I don’t think the new changes will mean that all sideloaded apps are banned. We don’t yet know how much Google will misuse this to make installing apps that they don’t find “appropriate” even though they are completely safe a burden. The verification will probably be fully automated. Can anyone clear this out?
Wait until it affects me. Just like when I ditched Chrome. Just like when I ditched Windows. I used Vanced long after they were stopped, didn’t switch to ReVanced until Vanced literally could not play anymore. I’m the latest adopter, for sure. By the time I make a change, the path of what I want to do has been well-tread by others.
So you’re ditching Android, for what? Is there an actual Linux phone you’re looking for, are are you gonna carry around a pocker-sized PC? (genuinely asking)
Don’t know yet! I would assume get a phone that supports Graphene or Lineage. But I’m not opposed to some PDA sized Pi Zero Frankenstein abomination if it does what I want it to.
My plan is the stick to using older phones that google wont bother pushing the update out to. Forever if need be.
My phone only updates until Jan 2026 so I’ll be fine. I reckon they’ll allow installing via adb still as otherwise people won’t be able to develop new android apps
Wait and see, then panic if affected.
I am hoping, that I can switch to a Fairphone with a custom ROM til next year. If I can’t get the money for it until then, I Am just hoping that it will be implemented through an android Update, because in that case it won’t affect me, since I Am already stuck on Android 11 or so.
Fairphone makes an effort to open source all code including device trees and encourages the developement of custom roms and alternative oses like Linux mobile. So I’ll just switch to a Fairphone with a custom ROM.
I won’t switch to mobile linux though since I don’t want to go back to an unsandboxed environment.
Custom roms. Support them all
I’ve been looking into pure Linux Phones like Ubuntu touch and the Kali Mobile thing. Shame that its limited to hardware that I can’t find here
I have been using custom ROMs since CyanogenMod and am currently mostly on GrapheneOS, some of it entirely Google-free.
I used to use cyanogen mod but have not used a custom ROM in years. How difficult is it to setup these days and how difficult will it be to adjust?
GrapheneOS is very easy and smooth, but only works on Pixel hardware. LineageOS is more rough around the edges and considerably less secure.
