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GrapheneOS Foundation To Never Require ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS

https://lemmy.ml/post/44781501

GrapheneOS Foundation To Never Require ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS - Lemmy

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Mar 20 at 8:30pmWeb
Show threadTruscapeMar 20
Nice to have it in writing.
Show threadPikaMar 20
Agreed, although having it in writing may end up backfiring on the team being counterproductive because it will be used against them when the locations that have implemented such laws use it as evidence of why it should be banned.
Show threadVictorMar 21
My interpretation of what they put it writing is that that would fall under the “so be it” clause. 🤷‍♂️ Or as I like to call it, the fuggalldat section.
Show threadFoundFootFootage78Mar 21

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account.

If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Show threadADTJMar 21
I think you wouldn’t be able to buy the device with GrapheneOS but you could install it yourself, so not a contradiction
Show threadUlrichMar 21
No, you’ll still be able to use it, you just might not be able to purchase devices with it preloaded (Motorola).
Show threadz3rOR0neMar 21
Usable and available aren’t synonymous.
Show threadKindnessInfinityMar 28
They mean the OS itself would still be able to be used anywhere that a person has access to the supported devices and manually installs it themselves.
Show threadUlrichMar 21
The question is, will the Google Play Store? Unfortunately there are still some things I need from there…
Show threadgenerallynonsensicalMar 21
Aurora Store should still work. Which can be found on f-droid.
Show threadUlrichMar 21
How do you know that?
Show threadredparadiseMar 21
Aurora store is a proxy for the Google play store
Show threadmr_annyMar 21

Well it uses the website and gathers needed stuff from there. No logins needed.

As long as google keeps the playstore website open, and it will, aurora works.

Show threadUlrichMar 21
There are no logins needed now. If they implement agegating, there is no guarantee that will continue to be the case.
Show threadKindnessInfinityMar 28
Google Play Compatability layer would be able to make a stub or overide the age API requests for the google apps.