and what happens for trans ppl who live in areas that make it impossible to get a matching id google? fuck off with this “we’re protecting you” bullshit
I’m praying that there’s a toggle like for play protect
I don’t want an iOS clone
Whatever the hell I do outside the playstore is none of Googles business and though this too is handwaved away by claiming improved security, we all know this has fuck all to do with security.
This is just again Google being a monopoly and wanting to stay that way by pushing out other developers
I guarantee you that newpipe devs will not be able to get verified, and now Google can block yet another app
Fuck. google. (Also apple and gicrosoft
Their ‘verified’ app store already has tons of fake malware apps being distributed on it, maybe they should clean up their act first.
I’m sure the newpipe devs are going to coincidentally not be allowed to be verified… Oops no YouTube viewer… Ughhh…
Fixed that…remove YouTube!
and how do you explain that to your family? you got off youtube, but they won’t be happy.
Cold Turkey. Screw Google!
OK, this sounds problematic. I don’t see any obvious language for opting out and it doesn’t seem there’s intent to opt out. There’s probably going to be a dev option to allow it but that would probably still make installing from sources like F-Droid impractical.
there is already a dev option that users need to enable to use fdroid and such, and google wants to change that now. I doubt that they will just add a 2nd dev option, because that wouldn’t change anything.
It’s not a dev option at the moment. It’s a permission setting and it doesn’t require enabling developer options.
oh, right, my bad. I so rarely go to that menu that I forgot it.
Yup, makes sense. You do it in the beginning and then you forget about it. Until you change a phone. 😊
They’re afraid of more ICE trackers
Remember, it’s important that technology and advancement only be used by capital, never by the underclass.
Yeah, imagine a world where plebs had control over and ownership of the devices they use… (shudders)
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Lovely, thank you for this. I’ve left my feedback, and I hope many, many other people do as well.
All he said was removed by mod? What are you thanking him for?
modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=1015020
the mod who removed it L3s refers to rule 2, which is totally irrelevant on comments, and in any case it does not apply here:
Only tech related news or articles.
@xcjs@programming.dev maybe you want to know
it was a form from Google soliciting feedback on the thing.
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That is my hope as well.
