Is this still going to happen? What can we do?
Edit: Complain to your competent authorities here: https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/#consumers
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Follow that link and scroll down for what to do.
Thanks! 🙂 I’ll go through them. So, it’s really happening?
Thanks for clarifying that this only affects Google Androids.
Androids without Google are unaffected
What are you talking about? I never see ReCAPTCHA on my degoogled android.
Probably because my browser has JS disabled. Broken websites are broken websites. Yawn.
I honestly don’t think this is that big of a deal.
The people that want to still use unverified apps can do so after having to go through the flow once and never again. Those that don’t even know what that means can’t be easily coerced into installing a malicious app because of the security cooldown period.
This was a bigger issue back when the rumor was that no unverified apps could be installed under any circumstances. Now it’s completely overblown but the site seems to be doubling down instead.
I think people are just worried its going to escalate further from there. Google takes something away, gives part of it back. Then later they take a little more, give less back, etc…
until google removes it or adds even more hoops.
If Google wasn’t directly incentivized to screw us over for infinite growth and profits I’d also believe them here, it won’t stop here, they’ll keep making it harder for us to control our own devices
We’d better keep Google in the know that we still don’t accept this.
