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[return to "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"]
1. medhir+Lg1[view] [source] 2025-08-26 03:18:33
>>kotaKa+(OP)
Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own.

Will once again re-up the concept of a “right to root access”, to prevent big corps from pulling this bs over and over again: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access

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2. wouldb+nz1[view] [source] 2025-08-26 06:41:55
>>medhir+Lg1
To be fair to Google, they got so much cricticism for allowing so many spam apps.
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3. rickde+kB1[view] [source] 2025-08-26 07:01:41
>>wouldb+nz1
It's a tricky balance-act to secure their ecosystem.

The more measures they take to secure it while allowing the user to decide whether to participate, the more drastic this opt-out user-decision becomes.

In order to now preserve that "open ecosystem", they would have to provide the user an option to disable Google Services entirely, which would turns the device almost into a separate product

All this is unlikely to happen just for the sake of "pleasing the community", I believe we need a general legally binding definition of what functions the user owns if (and when) a device is stripped of any services on top.

If my car loses functions once it loses connection to the manufacturer, this bare set should be communicated as the purchased value ("in exchange for your money"), separately from any on-top "in exchange for your data" business-model

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