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Your Google Android device is about to stop being yours (keepandroidopen.org)
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Is this still going to happen? What can we do?

Edit: Complain to your competent authorities here: https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/#consumers

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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That's not the only problem. Open source apps will just die because 99% of people won't download them. So they won't bother writing them unless then can be listed on the Google Play store.