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Google will be restricting Android soon! (piefed.ca)
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Google will soon be requiring android app developers to pay $25 to register their governments ids to make apps outside of the play store.

The package (com.google.android.verifier) will be introduced on devices running Android 8 or higher, granting Google the ability to block the installation of unverified apps.

Complete your migration plans before Google puts up the barbed wire making it much harder to leave.

The alternatives are Graphene, Calyx, Sailfish, FuriOS, Ubuntu Touch and Postmarket OS.

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've heard that /e/os is basically just used as a tool to sell murena services and is a generally shitty android rom

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I have /e/ on my Fairphone 5 and I like it well enough. I was looking for a degoogled European android ROM and it works OK for that. My banking apps etc. all work and I only occasionally have problems with apps relying too heavily on Google services and therefore not working.

    They definitely have better integration with Murena services but I use Proton instead and I've not had a problem.

    I've heard good things about iodé too.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I've heard they sell refurbished consumer devices with /e/.
    They basically tried to recreate G-services (voluntary for users of course) in addition to providing the OS which is built from AOSP.
    It worked well enough for me, like LTS LineageOS basically but I didn't care for the design so much.
    But all my info is many years old.

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