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ManiabelChris @maniabel@mastodon.de
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Keep Android Open
Bitte unterstützt den Aufruf!

Im August 2025 kündigte Google an, dass ab dem nächsten Jahr keine Apps mehr für die Android‑Plattform entwickelt werden können, ohne sich zuvor zentral bei Google zu registrieren. Das betrifft auch Entwickler:innen, die gar nicht in Googles PlayStore veröffentlichen, sondern ihre Android-Apps z. B. in F-Droid anbieten.

Die von Google geforderte Registrierung umfasst:

➤ Zahlung einer Gebühr an Google
➤ Zustimmung zu Googles Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen
➤ Vorlage eines amtlichen Ausweisdokuments
➤ Hochladen eines Nachweises über den privaten Signaturschlüssel des Entwicklers
➤ Auflistung aller aktuellen und zukünftigen Anwendungskennungen (App‑IDs)

Daher: Keep. Android. Open!

keepandroidopen.org/

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

keepandroidopen.org · Keep Android Open

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WERNERPRISE° KI-frei seit 2004 @wernerprise@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org
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Still people here using Google®™? (YouTube, Android phones, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps/Earth, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Photos, Google Keep, Google Translate …)

You support a corporate greed that goes way out of its way to make as much money as humanly possible. Presently, YouTube is fighting alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, and with horseshoes in the gloves. Google went to court against German web host Uberspace to force them to take down the downloader youtube-dl (which, ultimately, the RIAA got done.) The Chrome browser now blocks adblockers, and Android’s “Ad Topics” spy on users’ every move to tailor ads based on interests.

Fret not, though, there are alternatives to all of the services mentioned above. I’ll soon put together a list in a comment. ↓

@invidious
@GrapheneOS

· wallaroomedia.com/blog/google-
· reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comment
· youtube-dl.org/
· reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments
· zdnet.com/article/what-is-andr

Google's Corporate Greed Exposed: Prioritizing Profits

Google has come under scrutiny for its questionable practices in search advertising auctions. Once again, we’re seeing Google’s seemingly relentless pursuit of profits at the expense of advertisers.

wallaroomedia.com · Wallaroo Media

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Israel made Google and Amazon use secret payments to dodge legal orders

When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o




Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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The website “Keep Android Open” is an initiative to protest and advocate against a new policy by Google which bans sideloading apps. The goal is to pressure Google to reverse or modify this policy to protect the open nature of the Android platform and the ability to sideload or use 3rd party app stores without excessive restrictions keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

keepandroidopen.org · Keep Android Open

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Asta [AMP] @aud@fire.asta.lgbt
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looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.

nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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Almost everyone I know has YouTube Premium now. It's next to impossible to watch anything without it, due to so many ads that are hard to block on a TV or mobile device, which is where kids watch them most. They've even introduced a delay on desktop where it's usually easier to block those ads and refuse to play videos when a VPN is detected. All these problems go away if you have the Premium version. They've found the infinite money glitch 😏

wojtek @wojtek@vivaldi.net
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@nixCraftnixCraft 🐧 uBlock Origin on the desktop + sponsor block + NewPipe/Tubular on android... and the latter on any "AndroidTvStick" via f-droid. though for anyone non-tech premium seems to be the "way to go" sadly.

It's "funny" / annoying that tried to create their own streaming service but when "google video" wasn't getting any traction they simply bought out , monopolised everything with "free" content and then when competition was dead, "forced" payments... :/

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AJ Sadauskas @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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So I went to F-Droid and attempted to download the public transport plugin for Kvaesitso.

And I got a Google Play Protect popup message warning "harmful app detected".

It gave no further details about why this app is harmful.

Does anyone know if this app is harmful? If so how?

Or is this Google being a monopolist and blocking competing open source apps?

#Google #Android #AskFedi #FDroid #GooglePlay #degooglization #degoogleyourlife #Kvaesitso #infosec

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Micah Lee @micahflee@infosec.exchange
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I was interviewed on the Kill Switch podcast about ICEBlock app, the mutual aid group NorCal Resist, and the insane situation we’re in where Apple and Google are collaborating with Trump to censor apps at will podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

maybe ICEBlock was 'activism theater,' but is banning it protecting us?

maybe ICEBlock was 'activism theater,' but is banning it protecting us?

Podcast Episode · kill switch · 10/22/2025 · 35m

podcasts.apple.com · Apple Podcasts

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Synapsenkitzler 🌻 🌈 @synapsenkitzler@digitalcourage.social
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"Da beruhigt es ungemein, dass die Bundeswehr sich in einem akuten Anfall völliger geistiger Umnachtung erst kürzlich dazu entschieden hat, ihre In-House-Cloud mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung Googles zu bauen. Es sind offensichtlich alle verrückt geworden."
Siehe auch die Entscheidung vom @bsi (Bundesamt für Sicherheit (sic!) in der Informationstechnik) zur Kooperation mit google vom Februar 2025:

"Google Cloud und das BSI hatten im Februar eine Vereinbarung unterzeichnet. Ziel sei es, die Entwicklung und Bereitstellung sicherer Cloud-Lösungen für Behörden auf Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalebene zu unterstützen. „Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt der Vereinbarung liegt auf der Gewährung der Datensouveränität“, hieß es damals in einer Mitteilung." taz.de/IT-Sicherheitsbehoerde-

@bkastlBianca Kastl

Claudia Plattner

IT-Sicherheitsbehörde warnt: „Wir haben viele technologische Abhängigkeiten“

Digitale Souveränität ist für Deutschland vorerst unerreichbar, sagt BSI-Präsidentin Claudia Plattner. Es brauche deshalb mehr Kontrollmechnismen.

taz.de · taz.de

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Miguel Afonso Caetano @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
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"Google AI overviews are misleading or inaccurate in 37% of finance-related searches, according to The College Investor's latest analysis. This is an improvement from last year, where 43% of AI Overviews were inaccurate - but a one-third error rate is troubling when it comes to personal finance.

This is causing consumer confusion, and potentially harming Americans' finances. The overviews were especially bad when it comes to tax, insurance, and financial aid related queries.

What's Happening: Over the last several years, Google has been rolling out AI-driven answers in search results. At the top of the search results they show AI Overviews, and they're now expanding the use of AI Mode. The problem is they are plagued with inaccurate answers. And experts say it's a serious issue."

thecollegeinvestor.com/66208/3

We Asked Google Search 100 Money Questions - Here’s What It Got Wrong

Google’s AI Overviews still struggles with personal finance topics, from student loans to taxes, according to new research.

thecollegeinvestor.com · The College Investor

Link author: The College Investor@thecollegeinvestor@mastodon.social

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knoppix @knoppix95@mastodon.social
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📉 Wikipedia traffic drops ~8% as users turn to AI & social media. 🤖

Wikimedia says AI uses its content without driving clicks. 🔗
Google contests this, citing stable search traffic. 🌐
Wikipedia is crafting new policies for attribution and sustainability. 🛡️

⚖️ Calls grow for fair data use & AI transparency.

🔗 kshb.com/science-and-tech/arti

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Wikipedia sees decline in visitors as users get accustom to AI

Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

www.kshb.com · KSHB 41 Kansas City News

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Pete Orrall @peteorrall@bsd.cafe
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I use but may be enforcing registration in soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new OSes.

is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to .

theregister.com/2025/09/29/goo

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project

: Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member

www.theregister.com

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Tommaso Gagliardoni @tomgag@infosec.exchange
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Some big news regarding mobile OSes:

First, Graphene OS has confirmed a partnership with a large OEM to bring support to non-Pixel devices (Snapdragon SoC):

piunikaweb.com/2025/10/13/grap

This is good news, but IMHO it only delays the unavoidable demise of free AOSP-based projects since Google is now finally pulling the rug.

Second, the FSF announced Librephone, an initiative to bring real freedom to mobile devices:

fsf.org/news/librephone-project

This is also good, but it must be taken in the right perspective: Librephone, as far as I understand it, is not a new mobile OS, but rather an initiative to open-source existing proprietary firmware blobs. AOSP-based open source OSes like Lineage, Graphene, and even /e/OS, will hopefully benefit from this initiative, by being able to replace binary blobs with open-source firmware. But they still remain AOSP-based solutions, and therefore bound to the Google ecosystem.

There are two problems here that really need to be addressed.

The first one is political. Legislators and citizens must come to acknowledge that a democratic society where the full mobile ecosystem is in the hands of a corporate duopoly is not acceptable.

The second one is technological: AOSP is not a fully free OS, it's a trojan horse, a trap set by Google years ago that is springing right now. We need to move away from Android and embrace full GNU/Linux solutions, or even something completely new, at this point I don't even care. I've heard good opinions of Postmarket OS. Any feedbacks here?

Say what you want about Richard Stallman, but he saw this coming.

GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

GrapheneOS confirms partnership with major Android OEM since June 2025. New devices with flagship Snapdragon chips could launch in 2026.

piunikaweb.com · PiunikaWeb

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Vinoth (Mobile security) @vinoth@infosec.exchange
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This is my post. I hope I am doing this right.

I am Vinoth, from San Diego. I lead the silicon security architecture and silicon security operations teams at . Before this, I worked on mobile silicon security at . I will mostly talk about , and .

Much of my work is about improving the security of and other devices. My expertise is at the intersection of hardware security architecture, software security architecture and silicon security operations (secure key provisioning, code signing, device attestation etc.). I have ~20 years of experience making mistakes at this particular intersection that make me feel eminently qualified to talk about how to not make them.

I love explaining the intricacies of silicon development to software engineers and vice versa. So if you want to understand the hardware underpinnings of Trusted compute, confidential compute or whatever, I'm your guy.

I sometimes hold unpopular opinions, and I welcome healthy discussions about them. For example, (a) open sourcing RTL will not improve hardware security to the same extent open source software improved software security (b) there are situations where compliance actively harms security.

Also a medidator, volunteer at , father of 2 kids, husband of 1 wife, angel investor and a very curious human being.

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Quincy @quincy@chaos.social
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@CCC

muss als Gatekeeper endlich entmachtet werden.

Hab's schon lange gesagt: eine mündige Gesellschaft braucht keinen Play-Doh-Store.

Zum Recht auf Reparatur und dem Recht auf Interoperabilität muss es konsequenterweise auch ein Recht auf offene Geräte geben.

Aber die Zeit läuft davon - die Macher der reiben sich schon die Hände.

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donthatedontkill @donthatedontkill@mastodon.social
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I'm not sure if there's a term that exists for what I'm doing in this age of technofeudalism. There probably is. But a term I use in my mind is "digital homesteading." And I'm surprised how many people seem actually interested. It's, of course, all about making it accessible to non tech people.

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