Post #1204654
2026-04-16 18:20 UTC
Replies (20)
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@hiddenalpha@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 18:29
@IzzyOnDroid https://keepandroidopen.org/
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@seanking@woem.men 2026-04-16 18:41
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social And because what? They want to have more control over Android akin to how Apple does with iOS? Google's pathetic.
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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social 2026-04-16 18:48
Can Google just call themselves Apple now? @IzzyOnDroid
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@julian@digitalcourage.social 2026-04-16 19:15
@IzzyOnDroid go @GrapheneOS !
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@webkitten@tech.lgbt 2026-04-16 19:16
@IzzyOnDroid And this is why I've turned off system updates on my Samsung and sticking with Android 15.
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@synnef@woof.tech 2026-04-16 19:44
@IzzyOnDroid it's very disturbing that so many people took google announcing the "advanced flow" for "sideloading" apps as a victory announce something extremely bad, then make the conditions a little better while not addressing your proposal's root problem, and the general sentiment becomes "welp, this is fine, it could be worse" instead of "we need to keep fighting because our activism is working" so yeah, keep fighting, you do an amazing job :blobcatsurprised:
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@ki@chaos.social 2026-04-16 19:56
@IzzyOnDroid what I don't get is, there was an EU court ruling that apple had to allow alternative app shops... why does that not apply to Google?
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@steppl@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 20:04
@IzzyOnDroid The option of "sideloading" without hassle, was years ago (and sofar) the argument for me to go to Android. But looks like FDroid and alike stores do something right 😉 so google wants to protect their market positions. 🤬
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@zebidijah@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 20:14
@IzzyOnDroid so if I'm locked into a walled garden that won't let me load and run the code I want... Why would I not just opt for the better build quality of an iPhone?? What benefit is left in androids favor if it's just going to act like Apple, which is what drove me to android in the first place?? I foresee a zero-app future and a return/rise of web apps (self hosted or otherwise) instead...
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 20:21
@IzzyOnDroid They pioneered this with me a year and a half ago. They locked me out of the "Play" [sic] store and made me unable to update my decade+-old app because I wouldn't give them a lock of my hair. https://jwz.org/b/ykcj
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@interpipes@thx.gg 2026-04-16 20:54
@IzzyOnDroid @neil Countries that are not the "Select Countries" is where the exception lives. The likely translation here is that consumers in a market without functioning consumer protection bodies / law will be the "Select Countries" where those apps can't be loaded.
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@niedlichenacktschnecke@kolektiva.social 2026-04-16 20:54
@IzzyOnDroid What does certified android device mean in this context?
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@Sir_Limpalot@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 20:58
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social I've been on Android since the beginning, but that ends next time I'm buying a new phone. "Don't be evil" silently disappeared ...
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@andymouse@todon.eu 2026-04-16 22:19
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Hmm. So I'm on a custom rom, downloading my apps though Fdroid and if not OSS, Aurora store. Does this impact me? I'll do keepandroidopen anyway, but just wondering.
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-16 22:29
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social At some point, as it's happening with operating systems, someone at a national or European level, should say stop it. Should say fine, any phone not open to users' will has to cease to exist on our territory. Any public administration has to be forbidden developing applications that don't run at least on a tertiary open system. Note that in the large numbers Europe relies for _any_ comms on two (2) US oligarchs. I fear I will not witness anything changing for the rest of my life.
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@lumin@capivarinha.club 2026-04-16 22:37
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social this sucks really considering using LineageOS over this
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@zayn@toot.community 2026-04-16 22:38
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social @Gauss@furry.engineer :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:
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@danvolchek@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 22:46
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social sideloading aka NORMALLY INSTALLING APPS ON MY PHONE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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@fluidlogic@oldbytes.space 2026-04-16 22:51
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social @murena@mastodon.social, care to comment?
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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-04-18 13:59
Next update developers with apps on PlayStore will get, is attached below: all your listed apps have been auto-registered – and you are asked to register any other signing keys you might use for distribution outside of Play, as well as apps you distribute outside of it. Again, note the red box: "Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries." Thank your govs to let them get away with that. #Google #DeveloperCertification