@Tutanota Guess the second hand Pixel phone market is gonna boom 🙃

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Presumably this will be against the consent decree regarding closed app stores?

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I thought they'd rowed back on this and weren't implementing anymore?

@Tutanota Download? They come preinstalled and can't be uninstalled.

@Tutanota they're doing free advertising for GrapheneOS at this point. So glad i made the switch.

@Tutanota I believe Google already relented on this issue, two weeks ago. https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/google-changes-mind-again-allow-233000482.html

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ie- f Google into oblivion. surveillance state nazis

@Tutanota It's a great time to look into GrapheneOS.

@Tutanota you still are behind, frankly maintain you up to date it's does not show you in good light.

Google said they will add a way for user to disable the verification ....

@Tutanota Google is using poorly contrived MS business strategies (organized crime). What has happened to these businesses that greed and power is their driving mantra?

@Tutanota Better yet, drop Google altogether. Look into CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, Murena's /e/OS. Granted, custom ROMs are in their infancy, but they will never get out of it without popular support.

@Tutanota I prefer installing a custom ROM and not having the Play Store over not having my FOSS apps. People already recommend having a second phone just to use banking apps anyway (to be left home, so to discourage kidnapping), I can use my old phone for that.

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@Tutanota We'll have to choose any ungoogled Android fork instead.

@Tutanota here's why we need Linux phones ASAP

@Tutanota wouldn't that go against eu competition regulation? Sue Google?

Sign the petition to stop @Google from limiting APK file usage: https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage