Thread 719101005

Android emulation fags on suicide watch

explain what this means I'm not an engineer

>>719101005 (OP)
source? context? fact checking?

We must gas all of the jews immediately

>>719101005 (OP)
First of all stand alone emulators have existed for years
Second off anything that would be emulated would be "verified" since it would also be on the app store
3rd off how are they doing it? Source?

>using phones
kek

>>719101039
You will be spied on constantly
And you will be happy

>>719101005 (OP)
I'll just install an Open OS then instead of using Android at all.

We need Windows Phone back now more than ever

>>719101078
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

>>719101005 (OP)
oh no.... I will just have to keep bypassing that sort of thing.
What.
A.
Shame.

fuck google so hard. we seriously need to start enforcing antitrust laws again

It can be disable
done
Now that this thread has no use i declare ownership in the name of uma

>>719102784
I rather not use a phone ever again than to use a windows phone.

>>719103431
they literally do this because they lost the epic games antitrust lawsuit

What the fuck is even the point of using Android if you can't sideload shit?

>>719103475
now is not the time for horsing around

>>719101005 (OP)
Don't care,
I use un-Googled, pure Android.

>>719102784
Might have to check out Volla phones

>>719103606
You can, if the maker of the sideload shit has verified himself to be real human bean

>>719103747
Bean?

>>719103747
>verified
that's the bullshit part.

These last couple of months have been a complete assault at everyone's personal freedoms back to back. Legit been one of worst years I've seen.

>>719103876
War is coming

>>719101005 (OP)
mhmm thats right sirs you should not redeem the android now. apple only for me

>>719103876
if ur some super hardcore hax0r behind 7 proxies then you're not making stuff for android that have google services enabled anyways.
or at least not anymore since the brazilian children will be saved from your "free fornite bucks" apps

>>719104150
that's not the point. this shouldn't be happening period.

i just use my phone as a telephone, music player and for emulating gameboy games
what does it mean? people wont be able to install stuff straight from app file, without the store?

>>719101005 (OP)
too late
linux mobile is ready already

>>719103678
how?

>>719102784
There's also PinePhone

>>719104297
Yea. But of course could always hack it, like people always have.

>>719104415
Look I want a supercorp to spy on me I just don't want it to be google okay?

lmao, what's the fucking point of android if it's a walled garden now. this is some retarded jeet CEO idea, isn't it

Linux phones fucking when?

dateariane apk

nooooo

>>719104469
what the fuck has google to do with people's apps on their phones?
if i buy the phone, its mine, they can fuck off and die

WEGerrs in shambles

>>719104682
*lease a phone

>>719104623
They already have them.

>>719104682
You will own nothing and be happy, saar.
now, do the needful

>>719104576
It probably won't even go through

>>719104869
Yea, the whole point of Android is being an open* platform and this completely kills that idea.

>>719101005 (OP)
Doesn't this shut out like half of f-droid?

Its a complete nothingburger when you consider there are already emulators on the playstore, you could always root your phone, and web apps are piss easy to launch now.

>>719105156
you don't understand, this is the death of democracy. we live in 1984 now

>>719104869
>real ID for everything (think of the children!) probably won't even go through

the lickspittles have arrived

>>719103820
underage newfaggot

>>719101005 (OP)
Can't WW3 start already this gay shit is getting boring

>>719105156
>to launch now.
You mean "for now."

This is how it starts, not how it ends.

>>719104993
it shuts down anything that isn't directly tied to alphabet
because owning your hardware is something shareholders will not tolerate

Greed is a disease.
Capitalism weakens our immune system.
We can't eat our bank accounts.
We will die.

>>719103876
Goyim are cattle, they don't deserve personal freedoms. They need to be treated like the dumb animals they are, they need to be humiliated into compliance, they need to be tortured to punish them for being born. Goyim exist only to suffer and die for G-d's Chosen People.

>>719106173
And how do you plan on becoming immune?

>>719106107
>We will die.

Yes, that's the idea: to sacrifice our entire species on the altar of pointless evil. To destroy all of humanity's potential, just because it's there. For the simple pleasure of ruining good things for everyone out of sheer malicious spite. Evil is finally winning.

>>719105459
this but unironically

>>719102784
Fuck that shit. MeeGo, the actual alternative that was most likely to thrive, was sabotaged in favor of Winblows Phoney.

>>719106173
You will fall, kike scum

>>719106394
If we fail, we're dragging this entire world down with us. The world belongs to us or it belongs to no one.

>>719104623
Wait til you hear what android was made from.

>>719106479
muh samsung

>>719104623
google will buy it just like they bought android

>>719101005 (OP)
>>719101078
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/
TLDR: Google wants to harvest developer identities under the veil of "anonymous mallware bad"

>>719106778
>google wants more power, more money, and more control
yup

>>719106778
>anonymous mallware bad
>you can still get fucked over by a random XSS while using their shitty browser
yeah sure thing buddy, lmao

>>719106842
>>719107195
It's not even about google, it's just another part of ID verification bullshit. They want to make it harder to spoof/tamper with literal glowie spyware.

>>719107565
people would do well to start actively resisting id faggotry.

>>719108030
Too late for that.

>>719106778
I wonder if this isn't going to get them into trouble with the EU. They have a fetish for not fucking with sideloading for some reason.

*forks*

>>719108515
but if we don't lock down communications and fail to drone half to 3/4 of the males between the ages of 18-55 to death soon we might end up taxing billionaires properly

>>719105156
You can't root your phone in Burgerland

>>719106107
Yea because all those communist countries are building so many free oses.

>>719108982
*isn't adopted*

>>719109096
This can't be real.

>>719102784
The windows 10/11 UI on Windows Phone was so comfy...

>>719109182
Capitalism is better but its flaws are still flaws. It will still cause us to spiral, we just got smart phones out of it this time.

>>719108847
This is literally a part of EU mass surveillance program. They don't want you to have too much control over whatever is going on on "your" device.

If they do this, why would anyone pick Android phones over iPhones?

>>719109537
Better hardware.

Pretty sure Epic's lawsuit will prevent this form going forward.

>>719106479
You are such a fucking Indian your jEW larp fails miserable. I can see right through you.

>>719101005 (OP)
Gosh, I never knew that Android is owned by Google. I ought to put more thought into who owns the things that I am buying.

>>719108515
Thank god, only a few more measures and children might finally be safe.

>>719110212
are you shitposting or did you seriously never put 2 and 2 together when your android device started asking you for your google account and it came with like 17 different google apps preinstalled

>>719101005 (OP)
>>719103343
>Title: Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
>End of the article: The documentation currently available doesn't explain what will happen if you try to install a non-verified app, nor how phones will check for verification status.
kek

>>719109736
That has nothing to do with this. That was about payments.

>>719101005 (OP)
Meanwhile on the playstore itself.

Bigger the better

kek

>>719108847
>Reddit ass meme
>Garbage opinion
The EU supports all this, and they will soon follow in England's stead with the verification horseshit. The only reason they challenged Apple and whoever else was so they could get some good publicity for once (judging by your gay mene, it seems to have worked!)

They give you crumbs, and then they fuck you in the ass. This is how the game works, retard.

>>719110785
I guess I had internalized it as some sort of partnership between Android and Google, but I had never really thought it about it before. I can be easily fooled, so I need to put more effort into thinking ahead.

Android is basically iOS now. Phoneposters btfo.

>>719101005 (OP)
Enable developer mode, enable install unsigned apks, intall any shit you want.

>>719101423
>tfw I'm using GrapheneOS
Google can suck my dick

>>719101005 (OP)
what does sideloading even mean

>>719111646
what they're telling you with this announcement is that they'll disable that capability in a future update. it will disappear from the menu you're used to seeing the option on. samsung is liable to play along

>>719109736
>>719108847
>>719110793
It's completely different from the Epic thing.
They are not actually disabling sideload - you can still use f-droid or chink stores or whatever the fuck you want. Or just download an .apk from somewhere and install it directly.
The problem is that now they're changing how app signing works. Currently, any app on any store (and any non-store compiled .apk) needs to be signed with developer's private key. Right now this (sort of) prevents you from accidentally installing a malicious copycat app over your existing app - Android won't allow you to install an "update" for an app if the old version and new version are signed with different keys.
The only thing they're changing is how this private key is obtained by developers. Currently the key simply lets you know that Best Remote Dildo Controller Free (No Ads) version 1.2 comes from the same guy that made Best Remote Dildo Controller Free (No Ads) version 1.1 and that's it. It doesn't tell you (or anybody else) anything about who that guy is exactly. After this change each private developer key is going to be tied to a verified legal identity (yes, with real ID and all), so if somebody makes a "bad" app that person (depending on the gravity of their offense) can be prosecuted or at least have their developer keys revoked (meaning all apps signed by them are going to be unusable from now on). What apps are going to be considered "bad"? Anything that google doesn't like (root, adblockers, etc), anything that governments don't like (things that mess with new "child safety" measures) and so on.
All these clickbait articles are wrong and misleading. Google is not banning sideloading or emulators, they are banning apps made by anonymous (as in not real ID-verified) developers.

>>719111651
There are backdoors in the firmware, anon. Also, Graphene isn't fully free.
>GrapheneOS is a version of Android which is described as “open source,” but it seems to include software that isn't free software or even “open source”. For instance, it comes with firmware programs for installation and it appears that at least some of them are binaries without source code.

>>719101005 (OP)
Fucking niggers want to kill revanced that way.

>>719101039
>>719111656
Side loading is the equivalent of just downloading and running a program on your PC.
No sideloading means you can only download things through the play store. It'd be like if you could only get computer programs from the windows store.

>>719101005 (OP)
Google is fucking stupid, is there even an alternative to Android or Apple?

>>719109537
iPhones are extremely buggy. They can't stay connected to the internet for longer than 5 minutes without timing out. Almost all webpages exclusively block iOS users from accessing the content and tell them to install an app. The websites that don't block iOS users are extremely buggy on iOS. You can't install ublock origin on their browsers, and most apps don't have a way to disable ads, even apps you pay for.

Google is only doing this to better harvest your data and force you to watch their shitty ads

>>719110793
all they have to do is block anything from running that doesn't have a key.
FYI Microsoft is experimenting with a similar thing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/smart-app-control/overview

The internet/computing in general is on a downward trend into shitty corporate hellscape

>>719112002
It's still by far the best alternative to stock android

>>719101005 (OP)
This was my only reason for not switching to IOS.

>>719112134
PinePhone, Librem and Liberty phone

>>719102784
I'd rather we all went back to no phones.
The fact that you're expected to drop everything you're doing 24/7 to answer a text or a call is beyond ridiculous.
Like your boss can text you on a Saturday afternoon and you get in trouble for not answering him right away to talk about work stuff or come in on the weekend or whatever.

>>719112612
skill issue

>>719112134
grapheneos is the best OS but you need a google pixel to install it

>>719112612
>he answers the phone on his day off
The only time I've ever done so was when I was on the toilet so he could hear me taking a shit while I talked to him. Stopped calling me on my off hours after that.

>>719112134
There's a few like Graphene, Linguine, and /e/, but they're all a little sussy. The only actually free distro is Replicant, but odds are a modern device won't be compatible. Efforts are being made to support Android 11, so things are looking pretty good.

Just bear in mind the government will be able to track your device no matter what. Free software will/should keep them from seeing what you do with your device.

>>719111941
Are they going to make it completely impossible for an anonymous person to make an app? Like, an app literally can't be made without being tied to a real existing author verified via Real ID?

>>719103475
posting such a scary gif should be criminal

>>719101005 (OP)
That's ok. Pretty much all Android handhelds are shipping with Android versions 1-3 years old.

>>719104415
>a literal brick

>>719104623
Nobody is using those
https://ubports.com/

>>719112558
It's probably going to be a toggle, just like it is currently when you try to install something from outside the Play Store.

>>719101005 (OP)
lmao, if this happens I'm switching to iphone.

>>719112672
>need a google phone to install the best OS
>google phone
So it's shit.

>>719101005 (OP)
ok but can I still emulate android on my pc? I want to give plants vs zombies 2 reflourished a shot.

>>719101005 (OP)
Does this mean anything for youtube revanced. Idmf not than i dont give a shit

>>719112612
>Like your boss can text you on a Saturday afternoon and you get in trouble for not answering him right away to talk about work stuff or come in on the weekend or whatever.
If your boss gets angry about shit like that turn in your resignation letter now because it's not going to improve

>>719113001
That is exactly what they're doing, yes.

This is all coming straight from the top

As to how they are getting all these companies and governments to do it all at once in lock-step?
Easy. They own all of them

BLACKROCK owns 53 billion of Apple, 45 billion of Microsoft, 40 billion of Google, 36 billion of Amazon, 24 billion of Facebook, 25 billion of JPMorganChase, 23 billion of Johnson&Johnson, 20 billion each of ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, and Bank of America, and so on, for a total of about 2.1 trillion.

Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Chevron, UnitedHealth, Proctor&Gamble, ATT, Verizon, Citigroup, VISA, Intel, Home Depot, Cisco, Comcast, DOW, CocaCola, Pepsi, Boeing, Merck, Oracle, Disney, PhilipMorris, MasterCard, McDonalds, GE, Walmart, 3M, IBM, Honeywell, TI, Invidia, Amgen, UnionPacific, BristolMyers, Abbott, LockheadMartin, GoldmanSachs, Adobe, MorganStanley, and about 4800 more major holdings

All of these are owned in near entirety by both Blackrock and Vanguard

But who owns Blackrock and Vanguard? Funny enough Vanguard is the top shareholder of Blackrock... and Blackrock is the top shareholder of Vanguard. Making them one and the same company.

Their actual investors are... private.

>>719113335
>if this happens I'm switching to iphone
And get even more cucked?

>>719112672
It's still based on android and once google decides to look access to all apis they are also fucked.

>>719113686
>either either
Fake. You're not good at writing.

>>719113686
That's gay. Can they really lock down their whole OS like that? There has to be a way for a user to say "I don't care that this app is unsigned or doesn't have enough good boy points I want to run it". Like, even Windows will let you run whatever if you click through enough warning prompts and it's a super cucked OS.

>>719113694
>Intel
>Nvidia
AMD... won...?

>>719114031
Nope.

>>719114002
>Fake
Oh no, some journalist made a typo in a TL;DR article.
Here is the actual source. No clickbait, no journo bullshit. Straight from Google itself.
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/assets/pdfs/introducing-the-android-developer-console.pdf

>>719113694
>State Street breathes a sigh of relief

>>719114665
You wasted your time, faggot retard. Not gonna read that or care.

Android's open source isn't it?
That'd be one reason for actual companies, and nations, to pay for a fork without that shit.
Assuming they don't just legislate against it as monopolistic bullshit where a private american company now throttles the entire phone market based on national and ethnic identity.

>>719113694
Draw your own conclusions

>>719101005 (OP)
>blocking sideload
What's the point of getting an android then? You might as well get an iPhone if both of your choices are locked down uncustomizable systems

>>719115012
They're not blocking it. You just have to show your government-issued ID and verify it's real before your app can be allowed to execute.

For YOUR safety, of course.

>>719101005 (OP)
Are they actually trying to kill android lmao?

>>719113694
no company should ever become that powerful

>>719114028
>There has to be a way for a user to say "I don't care that this app is unsigned or doesn't have enough good boy points I want to run it"
>>719114905
>one reason for actual companies, and nations, to pay for a fork without that shit
The whole point of this shit is to prevent the user from running a "malicious" app that spoofs a government-issued ID verification app or sends fake "malicious" data to a government-issued local media/chat scan app. Ad blockers are probably going to be "malicious" from now on as well.

>>719115324
The companies are just a front for the same families that have been ruling the world for millennia. They learned long ago they have to hide behind disguises and fronts

>>719101005 (OP)
A lot of emulators are on the playstore though.

>>719115476
>Ad blockers are probably going to be "malicious" from now on as well.
hilarious to me because I spent months unfucking computers that caught ad-served conficker back in the day

>>719101005 (OP)
Oh no! I won't be able to play.... uh....

Will this affect my ability to use Clover?

>>719115903
I use Chance. But yeah. Then doing this shit is stupid. The whole reason I use Android and not iPhone is because it's not a locked down piece of shit. My Nubia Z70 Ultra is a damn beast with 24GB of RAM and a 6150 MaH silicone carbon battery. No hole punch display either. It's a godly chink phone that even came with a case and charger.

Sounds like google wants to kill it's marketshare.

>>719116197
The whole point of getting the market share in the first place was to do this

>>719101005 (OP)
so this makes android no different from apple?

>>719101005 (OP)
What emulators require sideloading?

>>719114028
>Like, even Windows will let you run whatever if you click through enough warning prompts and it's a super cucked OS.
They've been trying to push this shit on Windows for ages but it's an uphill battle. Windows S mode (where you can only install good boy apps from Microsoft Store) has been a thing since 2018 I believe.
Windows and desktop PCs in general are in a weird place right now. On the one hand, they obviously offer way too much freedom to the users. On the other hand, they come with decades worth of legacy software from the whole x86 era so it's impractical to try and lock them all down in one go. What they've been doing instead is gradually making desktops more expensive and unnecessary for the general population and forcing everyone to use phones as much as possible instead (these days all normies have phones, most of them barely know how to use a computer). Banking apps (good luck using them on modern rooted android by the way, it's still kind of possible but it's a huge hassle and it's only getting worse), ID verification apps, digital wallet apps, future CBDC apps, it's all tied to phones so Windows is not their main priority right now.

>>719116065
>ZTE
Can it be rooted though?

>>719101423
>oh, someone said they're not an expert on this
>time to start up the FUD bullshit!
kys

>>719104075
lmao I cant wait for china to go bankrupt because they got out-chinese'd by the indians

>>719117178
You guys are making me fucking paranoid right now

Was this plan all along to not just to stifle free speech like were seeing now on the open internet but also gate off and limit software and hardware too for more control?

>>719114837
Based ostrich

>>719101005 (OP)
I'll assume you'll just be able to turn this off in developer options so I don't really see a problem. Retards already weren't sideloading apps because they can barely use their phone.

>>719118618
Wait a couple years until you need to verify your ID to post in here

>>719118618
In 10 years only third worlders running Windows 7 on their refurbished office dells will truly be free

>>719118618
You will soon need to take a new Video Selfie for your ISP every time you want to browse the internet, then you will need to livestream your face the entire time so that an AI model can scan your facial expressions to determine if you are experiencing Wrongthink

>download an app from the store that can play apk files
Problem solved

>>719118618
Who knows. Maybe they actually planned it all this way. Maybe the accidentally let the genie out of the bottle by giving us internet and computers. In any case, we're fucked.
Few years ago you would be called a conspiracy theorist for talking about this. Like haha tinfoil hat meme so funny. Now it's all out in the open.

>>719118618
software remote attestation on consumer PCs has been a looming threat for like a decade now but we're finally getting close. I really hope we're able to stop this one because if not it's going to be REALLY bad.

>>719117178
I hate that we'll ultimately have to have separate goybricks for banking and loicenses and the libre device that you actually use for fun will probably be some ancient thinkpad tier crap. Certain aspects sound fun in a cyberpunk way (like if you were to make your own laptop), but the tech regression would suck, I like the power of modern tech and it sucks that it's increasingly tied to digital serfdom.

>>719119631
>remote attestation
The hardware is already there with pluton (silicon-level malware from Microsoft integrated in modern CPUs) but nobody uses it for anything significant yet.

>>719106173
>Goyim are cattle, they don't deserve personal freedoms.
first post nails it.

>>719112612
Go to work on Monday and shoot him in the rectum with your semen.
You are the boss now.

>>719119764
Yep, we're on a fast track to cyberpunk dystopian nightmare without any of the cool cyberpunk shit.

>>719112612
>Be 16
>Have my first job part-time in a shop
>Manager calls me at 6am one Saturday to ask me to come in
>Don't undertand the etiquette or that you're "supposed" to say yes to these requests
>Tell her no because fuck that I'm going back to bed
>Never have any repurcussions
Skill issue.

>>719119514
Why wouldn't this work?

>>719101005 (OP)
Smartphones have been obsolete for any form of gaming since the proliferation of gaming PC handhelds like the Steam Deck, which was arguably necessitated by the enshittification of the Android platform.

I lost all interest in Android's emulation scene when I saw what AetherSX2's developer sperg out and sell the app store rights to Chinks who proceeded to load the updates with ad rape.

And for the few retards out there still clinging on playing emulators on their Android with a bluetooth pad- for fuck's sake it's not 2011 anymore you look like a fucking street shitter, throw that Gamesaar away and buy a Steam Deck already.

>>719116963
I'd argue worse, because its possible to sideload on IOS with little effort.

>>719120796
Why WOULD it work? Apk verification is done at a system level, trying to load an apk into another running apk wouldn't get around this.

>>719110913
Okay now show me where Snoot Game is and all the games on itch.io that include android apks

>>719121005
I emulate on my iphone all day and I dont have any ads. Get a real phone pajeet.

>>719115903
Yes. It'll kill every 4chan app.

>>719120573
When the malware is the "protector"

>>719118618
Yes. They want you to use the ZOG-issued phone with the 20 or so ZOG official apps and nothing else.

>>719120573
This also made me realize that a lot of dystopian software is field tested on gamers. All these consoles are locked down to the extreme. Kernel anticheats are normalized and gamers now even advocate for them themselves. They're using gamers as the perfect sheep to test the processes they'll use to enslave everyone else.

>>719118618
my read on the situation is that the there's a push in increasing the cyber security in a blanket way in each country. They are doing this not to stifle free speech but to protect their populations from malicious entities from different countries. With the flood of normies onto the internet, it's become too easy for other countries to disseminate propaganda. It's especially concerning that the propaganda for the most part isn't legitimate arguments but instead is just intended to inflame and enrage the population.
When it comes to hardware it's also just to stop people from downloading malicious apps on their devices.

The goal is to maintain more control, but I think it's for a perceived good reason, they are trying to be proactive in defending their populace from foreign interference.

>>719121253
lmfao. I've been using chance on IOS forever now, why would it get killed?

>>719101005 (OP)
You guys don't use rooted phones?

>>719103876
>Gen Z starts expressing dislike to Israel
>Every single government and business around the world simultaneously implements rules that require you to be identifiable online
A coincidence for certain

>>719121679
It's easy to sideload on iOS but it won't be on Android. Android will become a far more restricted OS compared to iOS.

>>719121590
>a lot of dystopian software is field tested on gamers
xbox groids, specifically.

>>719121253
I use 4chan on the browser. Looks like I'm not going to be effected then

>>719121732
Jews are honestly pretty badass. Imagine having the power to shut down the entire internet to stop people from talking about you bombing children.

MORE CONTROL
MORE RESTRICTIONS
MOOOOOOOOOOOORE

>>719121732
>a dislike for israel
>a call for pedo accountability, possibly leading to more untouchable criminal hunting
>open source ai
they wanna get this garbage rolled out quick. every little slowdown counts.

>>719121732
Daily reminder that this isn't even a conspiracy theory, it's something they've stated.
https://bacon.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1360

I threw my phone out after google sent me a mail where they tracked where I went for the entire month over GPS
I don't even know why they say they do, the nerve

>>719101039
It means there is no reason to use android anymore.

>>719120573
>We made a chip that makes your computer completely impregnable with advanced security only one person has control over, making it impossible for bad actors to access your data
>Cool, that person is me right?
>Right?

>>719121667
found the multivaxxed homosexual bicyclist eurocuck

I can see nobody has read the actual source that all this clickbait is citing

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html?utm_source=syndication

all it means is that apps have to be published by registered dev accounts, and they're creating a separate type of dev account to register for hobbyist creators who don't want to touch play store. 99% of whatever you guys are using, including sideloaded shit, likely comes from someone who either already won't be affected or who will easily enroll. additionally, the requirement is shitskin third world only until 2027 minimum.

is there a chance they crack down on things like revanced/newpipe? yes, its almost guaranteed given the ad block extension changes recently made to chrome. google only gives a fuck about ad dollars and nothing else, it is a huge part of their revenue and they want it all. you will either need to root your phone in the next 3-4 years or move away from android, as it will begin to look more and more like ios.

additionally at risk is anything adult themed or piracy/emulation related. but mainly they will look to stop all blocking of ads and ID evasion. the only thing they care about is serving you ads, and identifying and tracking you to more efficiently serve more and better ads

>>719122752
found ivan

>>719121590
Of course it's easy to do it on consoles. Consoles are designed to run a handful of pre-approved applications, desktop PCs are designed to run everything x86-compatible (to an extent).
Some of the most cancerous DRM software in history (Starforce, came with its own device drivers, rootkits, etc) originated from the music industry (from Sony Music specifically) if I remember correctly. It's been during early 2000s though so I might be wrong about specifics.
A lot of truly dystopian cancerous kernel level shit actually comes from the enterprise segment. Corporate security, leak prevention, employee monitoring, and no, I'm not talking about shit that can be tricked with mouse jigglers, there are full-scale corporate tracking solutions that give the bosses full overview of what their wagies do, every single keystroke is tracked, every app launched, every mouse click, heatmaps of UI interactions, every text input, every file moved/copied, etc.

>>719122832
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

>>719122860
to prevent corporate espionage.

>>719121667
>but I think it's for a perceived good reason
most feds think they're the good guys
who wouldn't, unless they're some self-aware psychopath in it for pleasure?

>>719123021
it's obvious something needs to be done. You can argue the ethics about controlling the narrative in a forceful way like this but the groups slinking around with hundreds of sock puppets accounts can't be framed as the good guys.

>newpipe will be banned
>google play store will still host jeet malware as usual
lmao, lol

>>719123518
what's newpipe? Sounds gay

>>719122762
>and they're creating a separate type of dev account to register for hobbyist creators who don't want to touch play store
And that type of dev account requires the dev to provide their government issued ID papers. >>719115476
>99% of whatever you guys are using, including sideloaded shit, likely comes from someone who either already won't be affected
Only the ones who already publish their shit on google play won't be affected.
>or who will easily enroll
Assuming they are willing to provide their government issued ID papers.
>additionally, the requirement is shitskin third world only until 2027 minimum.
Correct. 2027 is only ~ a year and half away though.
>is there a chance they crack down on things like revanced/newpipe? yes, its almost guaranteed given the ad block extension changes recently made to chrome. google only gives a fuck about ad dollars and nothing else
This time their main goal is government control, killing adblockers is a bonus.
>you will either need to root your phone in the next 3-4 years
Rooting is already a shitshow.
>bootloader is locked by default (because Google requires it)
>not all vendors let you unlock it
>install Magisk app (won't be able to do that in 2027 btw)
>with root, device integrity is usually doable but strong integrity is a game of cat and mouse
>getting any kind of integrity is only going to get worse
>without integrity your good goy banking/ID apps are not going to work

>>719123950
Where's all the loonix phones? I thought they were champions of free and open source?

>>719123715
some sort of gay dating app where you look for a "new" guy to "pipe" you, i think

So it has zero advantages over iphone now?

>>719124034
Most people are not ideologically committed enough to settle for a markedly lesser experience. Desktop Linux is finally at the point where it can compete only with a Windows that is circling the drain. It's only able to reach this point because of the miracle that x86 is relatively open. When it comes to other architectures and hardware, manufacturers hold everything tight, so achieving a usable experience on these locked down platforms is a nightmare in comparison. (People thought Nvidia was bad? Look at things like cell modems, or how ARM chipsets don't even have a common open way to boot. People take it for granted that you can just write an EFI executable on x86-64 and boot it.)

>>719124357
Cheaper price point I guess. Also if you already have android shit then it's easier to stay on android shit than trying to move it all to iphone

>>719124357
They're retarded if they think this is going to go over well. Unlike Apple fanatics, people who buy Android phones aren't blind sheep who will stay in your ecosystem out of brand loyalty.

>>719101005 (OP)
Authoritarian retards got so obsessed with telling apple their shit couldn't be locked down at all when applefags want to be locked down but made no effort to keep android open

I really hope zoomers get their socialist utopia
they deserve 75 years of it just like the Russians who supported bolshevism in 1917

>>719125001
why do you think anyone under 50 had any say in this decision?

>>719111941
Thank you for the context.

>>719101005 (OP)
Reminder: consumer rights abuses mysteriously vanish or get walked back when executives are killed or legitimately threatened.

>>719124465
>cell modems, ARM chipsets
Yeah, cell modems are a special kind of cancer. Basically a locked down SoC that does fuck knows what and even the most "secure" "free" and "open source" ROMs still need blobs that contain fuck knows what for these things to function.

>>719118275
Lol no their not. The jeets can't do anything. I almost got hit by street shitting retard on the highway because they can't even drive an 18 wheeler.

>>719104075
>>719118275
POOJITA XISTERS!! UPDATE SCRIPT NOW BITCH!! DRUMPF REPLACED H1B WITH CHINA NOT INDIA!!

>>719102784
Did you just wake up from a coma or are just Indian?

>>719121667
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse

>>719101005 (OP)
So just how are they disabling sideloading? This means there will be a last good firmware and you just don't update right

>>719104075
Didn't they cancel this because they couldn't produce a product without traces of cow urine or crap?

>>719109537
Frankly if this happens, might as well switch to iphone. Either that or some open source os, whatever the equivalent of linux is for phones. But with how autistic the open source distro community is you probably need the terminal on the phone too

>>719121732
Watching it all unfold in real time was fucking surreal.
Such a coordinated push.
Basically the whole world came together.
Like or yeah we totally hate each other's guts and we can never agree on anything and we have no common ground whatsoever and we're going to make fun of each other's nanny states for a bit but uhh... actually we're implementing exactly the same thing. Yep.
Imagine trying to describe it to somebody like five years ago. Imagine what kind of response you would get.

>>719120710
I've tried this. It works. The elites don't want you to know about it.

It's wild to me that there has constantly been some small subset of humans that consistently try to tyrannize the rest of us. It makes me wish we could somehow gene drive them out of existence for good.

If google does this there is actually no reason to use Android anymore as a consumer

>>719125001
>see capitalism
>call it communism
retard?

>>719126035
No because Drumpft threatened Tim Apple with huge tariffs if he didn't bring manufacturing back to the US after Tim Apple tried to pull a fast one and moved all production to India

>>719126690
I wish them good luck with this. There's a reason why we use china. The jeets are just too dumb for this stuff.

>>719121667
Absolute bullshit.

>>719125494
In principle, you could isolate them at the hardware level, but I'm not sure that any phones actually do so.

>Phones are required to be updated way more than computers
>Phones will depreciate apps at way shorter time scales than PCs
>There's no such thing as an "open source" phone like there is PCs
>Governments all over the world require phones for everything now
>Eventually, you will need a new phone that runs the latest OS or nothing works
>Bank on your phone
>Add this verification app to your phone
>Use public transit or government services on your phone
>Tie your ID to your phone
>There are only two kinds of phones you can get now
>Both are locked down ecosystems where you unironically do not own what you pay for

People should have been paying more attention to this.

>>719126903
Addendum: I think I recall someone creating a sort of Frankenphone where the secure device is connected via USB to a stock phone configured to let the first one use it for network traffic. That should work, but that's way beyond what any normal person is willing to tolerate.

>>719108847
Lol this is on the eu. Reminder that just recently the uk and eu were told to fuck off and were blocked from getting back doors into apps and devices like these.

>>719106479
I accept those terms. So long as I get to end the kikes.

>>719112612
I unironically wish we could go back to writing letters

>>719121667
>it's become too easy for other countries to disseminate propaganda
good thing only "other countries" try to spread propaganda. imagine if "our country" did that too, that'd be awful

>>719127093
at this point I am a square normie with no criminal record, no debt, no one is suspicious of me
just plug me in the matrix, whatever
If that means I don't get to say KILL TRUMP out loud, that's fine I guess
as long as no one knows about all my hyperporn, then I don't mind. If they come sniffing I'll just kill myself first

>>719109537
iPhone's os is still dogshit to navigate

>>719127109
Government agencies try for months to get this one guy on a Frankenphone, convinced he's some terrible secret hacker or elite from some underground crime network they need to take down no matter what.

It ends up just being this guy >>719127531

>>719101039
Google is protecting children and you by not letting you just "download and run whatever apps you want on the device you bought", which is dangerous and antisemitic

>>719101039
It means Linux on phones will start to have a username

>>719127938
Userbase*

>>719101005 (OP)
i think ypu're mistaking this with iOS, where emus are not allowed on the app store because JIT compilation engines are forbitten.
emus are safe on the official play store... for now.

>>719101039
WHOOOO BOY

>>719124034
there's librem 5 and pinephone pro at the moment.
you can try PostMarketOS on them at the moment, but beware: the mobile versions of plasma and gnomebwere barely ever tested for use on 6 inch screens and the chips on these phones are outdated by now.
If you squint your eyes a little further, raspberry pi and its clones are almost linux phones. They run linux distros on ARM chips, but they lack the WWAN and touchscreens (gotta buy them separately)

>>719109096
you're incredibly stupid

>>719128456
For you.

>>719101039
The death of .apk files

>>719101039
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps
Developers will need to verify their identity to allow users to sideload their applications.

Google will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identity if they want Android users to be able to sideload their apps. The company said that it made the decision after recent analysis found "over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play." By verifying a developer's identify first, it hopes to better protect users from "bad actors spreading malware and scams."

In its announcement, Google said that apps need to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed on certified Android devices. Pretty much all Android phones in the US and Europe are certified if they come with Google Play. The company is now building a new Android Developer Console, specifically for developers that distribute outside its app store, so they can quickly authenticate their identities. Developers will be able to go through the verification process in the console, as well as register their package names.

Google likened the process to "an ID check at the airport" in that it will only confirm the identity of an app's developer but will not be reviewing the content of the app. The company also clarified that the verification process will not prevent developers from distributing their apps wherever they want, including app stores other than Google Play.

The developer verification requirement will start rolling out in late 2026 in Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. A global rollout will follow at a later date.

Source: engadget (remember, never give any website clicks under any circumstances)

If Google goes through with this it'll just kill Android as an OS, since it'll just be a shittier version of iOS at that point and all the non-western countries that used it will no longer feel comfortable using Android.
I wonder how many Chinese companies will just go the Huawei route and just make their own OS or use HarmonyOS itself.

All this just to fuck with a few thousand people not watching ads on youtube? WTF is wrong with google? How greedy can you get?

>>719129991
I don't get it, so random apk files can't be installed unless the phone detects a goykey?

>>719119519
>Maybe the accidentally let the genie out of the bottle by giving us internet and computers.
Feels like this, they want to make it so future generations will never know of such freedom and if they do, be scared of it and reject it. The future is so fucking gay.

>>719130459
The line must go up, anon.
When you run as much of a monopoly as google has, you have to extract value where you can.

>>719130513
correct, and google only hands out the goy keys to developers who dox themselves to google

seems like there's been an alarming increase in efforts to reduce internet freedom lately desu

hopefully this means we get better alternatives in the future and big tech corporations get fucked

>>719126514
I SEE A PUSSY!!!!!!

>>719101005 (OP)
>>719101423
I'm just not going to use my phone anymore once it rolls out HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>719101106
Fucking this.
>>719112929
Based
>>719112612
Same. Texting has its uses but damn did I hate phones as kid.

This sounds illigal in the EU

>>719101005 (OP)
The only reason I both with android is cause i use youtube vanced
its over

so itll be the same as an iphone?