Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
The Play Integrity API has made it easier for apps to check whether you installed or bought them from Google Play.
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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...
MicroG devs are working on fakeing play integrity api since 2023: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2050
it seems that play integrity continue to change internally day to day... He is waiting that google stabilize it. Then will be a pull request.
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?
Yeah, maybe "working on" was too generous, "aware of the issue and some preliminary work was already done" would have been more correct
Here is some recent discussion if it's feasible at all: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/pull/2077
ReVanced patching will become more common
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.
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Lifehackers findsa way"
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You can degoogle on Android you know. Takes some effort, but the end result is better than moving into a walled garden.
You can degoogle on Android you know.
only if your device is supported. Most aren't...
Lineage OS supports a few hundred devices
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
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.
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.
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Those are really quite rare. Most have workarounds these days or just work outright.
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
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?
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You asked how to degoogle
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And...move to iOS? The even more locked down platform? What solution are you proposing here?
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You asked "what solution are you proposing?"
Now I am confused.
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Something AOSP like Lineage OS
You can install MicroG if you need play compatibility
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No play store no problems
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