Avoid Android And Google

And the whole GMAFIA

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Just a bit of news I found recently:

For the past several months open source and privacy advocates have been warning that Google is about to lock down an important feature of Android, the ability to install software from third-party developers. In approximately 80 days, Google will disable the option to install software on Android that has not be provided by verified developers. The Keep Android Open website states: “Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID. Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out. In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their software.” This move is a significant step in locking down the Android platform. [Source]

It’s a continuing move by Google, Apple and Microsoft to take away your ownership of hardware, and make it so they control it, not you. It’s also tied to other authoritarian tech-restriction movements.

It’s why I ripped these out of my life:

G-MAFIA (Google, Microsoft, Alphabet, Facebook, IBM/Intel, Apple)

(Aphabet owns Google, the M could also be Meta, which owns Facebook.)

All those companies also want to cram AIslop down your throat.

There’s an easy fix.

1. Don’t buy Apple/Android phones.

2. Don’t use Apple/Android/Microsoft operating systems: use Linux instead (which is an OS that lets you stay in control of your own hardware). Read my article about switching to Linux.

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