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Me Buying A Phone From Google Solely Because I Can Put GrapheneOS On It (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wdym by "you could see" as if its not whats already announced to be happening. Fdroid will not cooperate with googles app verification process which means Fdroid will stop working on all google certified devices, meaning everything other than devices with custom ROMs. NewPipe also announced they wont get google verified meaning it will stop working too.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Is the "Nothing" phone product a custom ROM? Sorry if dumb question I'm a bit out of my element.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    ROM basically is just another word for operating system so its about the software not the hardware. So only devices (phones) that allow you to install your own custom operating system (like a modified version of the original android that comes with it or even a proper linux OS) will allow you to install apps not certified by google.

    Most of the time people talk about custom roms they mean open source software that replaces the pre installed closed source software. Nothing phones are closed source so they are probably not on the "good" side here.

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