11mo ago

Google Is Rolling Back Security To Pursue Their Own Interests

twitter.com

x.com

I have my respect for GrapheneOS for addressing the Play Integrity API issue.

35 comments

Shit. All google needs to do is F GOS and game over for pixel phones and GOS. GOS really needs a backup manufacturer that maybe can achieve GOS goals.
- I always found it weird that the OS that attempts to limit the impact of Google's severe privacy issues mostly only runs on hardware by Google.
  As soon as Google wants to, you kind of just lose.
  
  I always found it weird that the OS that attempts to limit the impact of Google’s severe privacy issues mostly only runs on hardware by Google.
  Not only weird, but it's beyond rich. There's no way on God's green Earth I'm giving money to Google to buy hardware that allows me to escape Google's corporate surveillance machine. That's just too much irony for me.
  My deGoogled cellphone therefore is a FairPhone running CalyxOS.
  CalyxOS is a mighty fine AOSP distribution, in case you wonder. Very pro, very polished, and I've never had a problem with it.
  
  The Pixels (and the Nexus before them) are very hackable compared to most other phones. They're a good platform for this sort of thing, and why not use it? If you have alternatives, get portin'.
Nitter link
- Mastodon for those who avoid Twitter entirely
  
  This isn't the same post?
- we need a bot for this now that we have healthy instances again
- Oh shit I thought nitter was dead
When your backend is google, you give google your backend.
https://postmarketos.org/
- How is it for receiving calls from idle?
  I really want Linux Mobile to work but last time I looked the receiving calls from idle was unreliable and it's the most important part of a mobile phone.
  This was on the OG Pinephone.
  
  By idle I assume you mean while the phone is suspended? It works fine for me (verizon US, phosh) though there's an extremely rare bug where the phone will fail to resume from suspend and needs to be rebooted. Also I find I need to restart modemmanager after I boot or the modem doesn't come online, though that may just be a problem specific to me since I think I installed the open source firmware for the pinephone modem incorrectly since there's a bunch of other stuff that doesn't work properly (hangs on a lot of AT commands).
- That's a great one liner!
- This does not solve the Play Integrity API issue. This would make app compatibility even worse lol.
Well. I was literally considering getting a pixel fold in the next few days to give grapheneOS a try. I guess I won't now? What other good options are there for a (mostly) casual who wanted minimal fiddling and maximum privacy? Just switching back to iPhone?
- Only a few apps enforce Play Integrity so it is still the best option for a casual user. Cash App enforcing it is my biggest hurdle.
  
  Is there a master list of apps that do this, I wonder?
- I doubt iPhone is better, and it's marketing instead. Or it's a matter of time before they wanna go the data mining road. You can also get a fairphone and install a custom ROM
  
  Right, but not Graphene, though, right? The whole draw of Graphene is that it's relatively easy and android-feature complete, no?
- There's nothing wrong with Graphene. I've been using it for months now on my Pixel 7.
  
  Did you read the post...? It seems like Google is starting to fuck with app access, unless I'm misunderstanding?
I'm confused. Authy is just a 2FA client. There's half a dozen in fdroid. I use FreeOTC myself. Are graphene users unable to use anything else?

35 comments