The Play Integrity API has made it easier for apps to check whether you installed or bought them from Google Play.
    • @[email protected]English
      65•2 months ago

      Well, the issue will be developers of other apps would force us to re-google since any build of the app would be useless unless installed from the play store…

        • @[email protected]English
          11•2 months ago

          Are they? Other comments in different PRs seem to indicate they have no intention of trying to subvert play integrity. Is there something more recent than this that indicates they’re trying?

        • @[email protected]English
          17•2 months ago

          For every single app where the developer tries this?

          Yeah right. That’s unsustainable.

          They’ll also just increase ways for the integrity to verify it hasn’t been patched. This announcement already says they’re checking the app’s binary for tampering.

        • steboEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          You can degoogle on Android you know.

          only if your device is supported. Most aren’t…

          • sunzu2
            2•2 months ago

            LineageOS with microg works for most devices

            Issue is that it is no secure. People should be buying pixels flashing calyx or graphene going forward for their next upgrade IMHO

            • @[email protected]English
              5•2 months ago

              Issue is that it is no secure.

              Explain. I’m tired of hearing this boogeyman, tell me exactly how Lineage is “not secure” but Graphene is?

              Then maybe give me some examples of cases where that difference has actually been a problem.

              Because it feels like a lot of these “unsecure” things people hand-wring over are really just user freedoms they may use to hurt themselves, not actual vulnerabilities that can’t be avoided with common sense.

              • sunzu2
                -2•2 months ago

                Primarily because bootloader is not lockable, plus delayed updates.

                Also, they do some weird thing with how it is developed. I think it is always in some weird “developer” state but I don’t remember details.

          • sunzu2
            2•2 months ago

            Apps that don’t work are usually the worst privacy offenders lol

            People will need to make a choice, corpos won’t make it easier for the slave

            • @[email protected]English
              1•2 months ago

              I mean, you can be as snotty about this as you like, but it doesn’t change the fact this “choice” is basically between participate in the same digital world as most people do with the most popular, most supported, and highest value apps, vs only what you can use in F Droid or something?

              You’re calling them slaves but can you give them anything more appealing outside the walled garden than “privacy”? It’s not like everything on the play store has an F-Droid corollary. You’re basically telling them to dramatically reduce their own use case. Does that make them a slave?

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Something AOSP like Lineage OS

        You can install MicroG if you need play compatibility