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.
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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.
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@GrapheneOS I'm actually looking at going back to a flip phone... Fucking tired of the app-centric world.
@ShredderFeeder You won't have privacy/security using carrier-based calls rather than end-to-end encrypted messaging. Decent smartphones are also much more secure than desktops or laptops.
@GrapheneOS Good, maybe people will stop calling and texting me.
I don't give a fuck about privacy in my conversations, given that it's the apps themselves that are spying on you, not to mention forcing advertising down my throat.
@ShredderFeeder Do you think apps like Signal/Molly or Organic Maps are spying on you? You choose which apps you use.
@GrapheneOS carriers install apps on their own.. Cellphones aren't pure, the carriers maintain the ability to force apps on it..
I think there is nothing more expensive than anything that's free. If the service is provided for free, you're what they're selling. 100% of the time.
@ShredderFeeder Only if you choose to use a phone which integrates carrier apps that way... Carriers do not have any control over the OS if you're bringing your own device without that kind of nonsense, and nearly every carrier supports doing that. You lose almost nothing not going with either carrier devices or OEMs partnering with carriers that way.
GrapheneOS is an open source project that's free and developed by a non-profit funded solely by no strings attached donations.
@GrapheneOS an example of a phone that it supports? I'm all for open-source, even though I am still convinced that data-harvesting is happening...
https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices has our list of hardware requirements, which is focused on security requirements due to the focus of the project on defending users from exploitation, such as https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112826067364945164.
https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices has current devices recommendations. It's a replacement for the stock OS on the supported devices. Needs to be a phone not sold by a carrier and locked by them since they often sell phones with OEM unlocking disabled to prevent replacing the OS.
Our focus is on security and we're explicitly not aiming for broad device support. We're working towards eventually having our own devices but so far our attempted partnerships with OEMs have fallen through largely because they weren't able or willing to deliver the expected level of security.