Is Google even relevant these days? In my opinion they have been a zombie company with zero innovation for well over a decade now...

What are the limitations of #WoT

My question is, will un-googled phones still work?

It's not weird at all. This means that now, there are enough people sideloading that it's affecting Google's bottom line or pissing off their advertising partners. It always unfolds this way. Corporation: all they care about is $$$. It'll be interesting to see if Graphene can do anything to stop...

Is a device loaded with GraphineOS still a Certified Android device? Will this effect normies only?

Trust this app because 10 other guys do. Reads privacy policy of that app. https://image.nostr.build/f08f960e113733d5cf7cbb4aae591eb8e1b44098560537cbf50ab6eb822debbd.png Zapstore is missing fair warning of anti-features & privacy alerts.

This is an attack on privacy of developers and normies who don't know any better and shouldn't have to know how to put a custom OS on their phone or look for a phone with an unlocked bootloader. But they need this for digital ID and SCCBDCs.

Time for me to ask a dumb question, 25 years after studying cryptography in university: When I try to verify signatures using gpg it's not fully successful, and therefore I'm just accustomed to ignoring it I guess it's because I haven't told gpg that there is any public key that I can mark as bein...

Nah, they already have great security in that you need to manually enable sideloading and manually click trough play protect notifications. Their move is about control, not security. And if you see it as a weapon against device ownership it suddenly makes perfect sense.

planing for far worse things if anyone buy pixel device

The thing is...developers who are rooting for freedom should take this as a warning sign coz shits are gonna get even worse and ought to ditch android all together and abandon apk and concentrating more on deb,flatpack,snap,rpm,tar etc.Even better if it's NOSTR-based app.Keychat.io is the only NOSTR...