• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Guys this is huge

    ID/age verification for apps is being built so only google signed and integrity verified apps can run, that would prevent any age verified apps running on non-official android OS like graphene.

    This will have to change when apps are coming from any random app store and can no longer use these google attestation services

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      1 day ago

      From the article:

      developers can opt out if they don’t want their apps to be available more widely

      So it won’t affect that.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        7 hours ago

        Will banks or Google itself not opt out?

        Will Google not offer backroom incentives for companies to opt in to its monopoly scheme like it did before for other schemes?

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          5 hours ago

          They don’t have to offer backroom incentives to the sort of organizations that want to use attestation. That would be a good future target for antitrust courts, as I’m pretty sure Google’s primary motivation to add it was Amazon launching a phone in 2014 without Google services. Amazon didn’t need Google’s help to fail at that, but perhaps the next company to try was dissuaded.

          As Apple recently discovered, willful noncompliance with the antitrust court is a bad plan. Google will probably be wary of backroom deals in the short term.