Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

arstechnica.i2p

Posted by sovereign in Tech (edited by a moderator )

Android's open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its next security initiative could make the biggest concessions yet in the name of blocking bad apps.

Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identities of all Android app developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where they offer their content, and apps without verification won't work on most Android devices in the coming years.

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Unbanned wrote

Needless to say, I think everyone on i2p knows how bad this is. It is time to move to GrapheneOS.

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edgelord420 wrote

How, did you read the article, this is the whole problem with GrapheneOS it runs on Google Pixel and google wants to prevent you from running Graphene on it

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jackal wrote

Very true, the solution is to ditch smartphones which are shit anyway and stick to standard and reliable computers running Linux or OpenBSD or whatever, if they're from 2016 or older even better.

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johnbaconator wrote

Waiting for Framework to launch that modular smartphone google was "making"

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=PQqudiUdGuo

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jackal wrote (edited )

After the massive embarrassment they've made of themselves releasing a desktop machine that has no modular RAM I wouldn't have much hopes on them.

Framework always seemed like a big nothingburger, they get more credit and praise than they deserve, they're not that much into right to repair (as proven with the desktop they released) and they do the bare minimum to not get in the way to make machines serviceable, a barebones laptop design with I/O modules is just the bare minimum user-serviceable-friendly thing to do. Besides these machines use the latests CPUs and tons of spooky mystery proprietary software, I wish they started talking less about mimicking consumer slop tech like smartphones and more about alternative and open hardware such as RISCV.

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Charlie wrote

Custom os are almost necessary at this point problem is the devices that support lineageos and the such are far and few between

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Unbanned wrote

True, more phones need to support custom operating systems because Android is getting worse and worse.

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edgelord420 wrote

I hope we will reach a point where people fork away from android and we get something similar with Linux on desktops.

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j8810kkw wrote

If such would be inevitable, I will not buy a new gen Android device.

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