GrapheneOSAction is still urgently needed to address the highly anti-competitive Google Mobiles Services licensing system and the Play Integrity API which are a major part of Google maintaining their monopolies over search and many parts of the mobile market.
We recently published a detailed thread about this here:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878067304840664
We're in contact with the regulators in MULTIPLE countries about this. Don't fall for Google pretending Play Integrity API is security related or that their licensing system is about compatibility.
GrapheneOS (@[email protected])
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/loss-of-popular-2fa-tool-puts-security-minded-grapheneos-in-a-paradox/ The article unfortunately leaves out most of the points we made in the thread. GrapheneOS supports hardware-based attestation and it's entirely possible for Google to allow it as part of the Play Integrity API. They choose to ban using GrapheneOS.
Android and Chromium would massively benefit from proper collaboration between stakeholders without Google's business model getting in the way. Should be forced to deal with both following the model of the LLVM Foundation and also spin off Google Play into an independent company.
Google is actively cracking down on competition in the mobile space by convincing app developers to use their Play Integrity API. Play Integrity API bans using operating systems not licensing Google's apps/services and agreeing to highly restrictive and anti-competitive terms.
Google's licensing agreement directly bans OEMs from working with GrapheneOS and producing phones with it. Google sabotages their own products such as the Play Store to boost core monopolies. If it was a competitive market, they'd want their apps and services available to any OS.
GrapheneOS has demonstrated Google Play works well as regular sandboxed apps without any special integration into the OS via our sandboxed Google Play feature. Google should be forced to spin off Google Play into an independent company competing with other app stores / services.
dunklecat@GrapheneOS thank you for everything you're doing for us all