Amidst all the chaos in the world, some significant moves are being orchestrated that could potentially have detrimental effects on people’s privacy and right to choose
There is no privacy on Android.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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I will literally go back to a dumb flip-phone and definitely Linux phones are starting to look more appealing
Critics say?
It's literally what it does. Just say what it does.
Pure gaslighting by a multi-billion dollar company that's responsible for the vast majority of Android malware in the wild. If Google wanted to make Android safer they'd make a concerted effort to stop distributing malware through the Play store.
not that i trust multi-billion dollar companies, but that would be a fairly effective way to fight malware on the store.
(oh course malware authors will find loopholes that regular developers don’t use, or just buy hacked developer accounts for $1.00 on the dark web)
You can only be safe if you're in our prison.
Thankfully, many of the apps I use every day have said that they will refuse to do this.
I am also now more seriously than ever looking into Linux phones such as PostmarketOS. Sure, for now, it's going to be Google certified devices only. But what's to keep Google from attempting to put this into AOSP in a couple of versions from now?
Then those apps won't work on any phone bought with Android installed and they will quickly disappear.
I feel like if it gets put in AOSP it will still be possible to remove since it's open source. My biggest concern is just not having any new hardware available to even run the alternatives. There are already few devices that still have unlockable bootloaders, and Googles own device are some of the most prominent ones. And with OS level age verification laws popping up everywhere there's even more incentive for manufacturers to lock the bootloader