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minus-square58008@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoI’m not phonetistic, just regular autistic; does rooting the phone bypass any of this? Or will I need to install a hacked ROM or something? 🤔
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoI’m on grapheneOS which won’t implement this I’m assuming other custom rooms won’t either
minus-squarevaionko@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAs long as your ROM doesn’t have Google Apps (or has them contained like Graphene) this won’t do anything.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWhat if google starts forcing the APK’s themselves to do some crypto handhsake to run on android? Will all your developers make a second set that don’t so they can run on Graphine?
I’m not phonetistic, just regular autistic; does rooting the phone bypass any of this? Or will I need to install a hacked ROM or something? 🤔
I’m on grapheneOS which won’t implement this
I’m assuming other custom rooms won’t either
As long as your ROM doesn’t have Google Apps (or has them contained like Graphene) this won’t do anything.
What if google starts forcing the APK’s themselves to do some crypto handhsake to run on android? Will all your developers make a second set that don’t so they can run on Graphine?
A forked ROM is not a hacked ROM.