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In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration wil...

Tony Acid @tonyacid25 1761757294

my plan to tackle this is to have two phones:

1) regular android phone only with the apps that require Google Play Store (banking apps, Gmaps etc.)
2) degoogled phone (either graphene or LineageOS without Play Store), with zap store and other APKs that are not currently on Play Store

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Peace K 🪙 · 25w

Most people will feel that it's too hard / expensive. Privacy awareness is not binary. It's a spectrum. Some people see privacy as super important and will go to great lengths to keep it. Some don't care about it at all and will not suffer any inconvenience for the sake of privacy. Most people are...

Zapstore · 25w

Why two phones? You can do all that with Graphene (minus apps that specifically use the Play Integrity API) in separate/private profiles

PaPa Morty · 23w

I agree about the 2 phones; a "normie" phone that's already working with known data, and another that isn't.