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If I disable updates, will that prevent Android from uninstalling my 3rd party apk?
I don’t think it will automatically uninstall sideloaded apps in your phone, it simply prevent sideloading from unregistered developers. There is an “official” way to circumvent it, doing it directly on the phone is a bit convoluted and require you to wait 24 hours, the other way need a PC and USB cable to install apps with
adb–that one is just like usual.https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
I wonder if f-droid will be able to function with only a 24 hour unlock. probably not.
haven’t rooted an Android phone in quite some time, but looks rooting is back on the menu
Sounds like android users need to go full Albania up in here
I didn’t get the reference
YOU NO SEE KROG
Direct Link to Petition mentioned in Post
Remember Change.org is a for profit company, when they ask you to “chip in”, do not do that, if you wish to chip in donate to an advocacy org that fights stuff like this such as the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
They won’t let me because my email address is for my personal website… How stupid is that‽
Update… Apparently fuckoff@gmail.com is much more valid than admin@mydomain.com
Annoying, but not surprising.
I’m on GrapheneOS on tablet and phone running mostly/exclusively open source, so not affected.
So what is the next fork here? I’ve been handcuffed to android/Google (phones/ tablets) for decades. I have a couple of iPads but they don’t have cellular and don’t fit in your pocket.
Graphene OS
So, do I finally need to learn about GrapheneOS? What are other people doing?
Graphene is by far the best. I highly recommend it.
Right now you need a Pixel to run it but soon you can get a Motorola that works with it.
Graphene is only of help (today) if you buy some shit from Google namely a Pixel. If you have another phone, step numero uno is always to learn what custom ROMs are available for your make and model.
Used Pixels are cheap and the money doesn’t go to Google again.
Used Pixels are often pretty misused and refurbished ones cost the same or even more than a new Pixel in my country… which is actually insane. Hopefully the new Graphene collab phone will be good.
Spoiler: it will also be massively expensive
This is a nice list I’d consider for new phones.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
- Fairphone (Netherlands)
- Hiroh (USA)
- SHIFTphone (Germany)
- Teracube (USA)
- Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
- Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
- Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
- Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)
Purism is a grift, should be removed.
Many people are still waiting on phones they ordered years ago.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
Will it effect free custom ROMs like lineage?
Not directly, but they’ve been making other moves to make life difficult for such users — such as significantly delaying releasing the open source parts they’re supposed to, potentially leaving users on insecure versions for far longer.
Also things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS
We all love grapheneOS, but please stop buying Google Pixels to do it. It’s such a contradicting action to first stuff googles pocket with even more money, and then be like “I am privacy conscious.” Please spend your money on alternatives that will put the money to actually developing good alternatives like FairPhone.
Second hand and refurbished is a thing
Just don’t buy them new, and it becomes far more ethical.
