Android

Wait until it affects me. Just like when I ditched Chrome. Just like when I ditched Windows. I used Vanced long after they were stopped, didn't switch to ReVanced until Vanced literally could not play anymore. I'm the latest adopter, for sure. By the time I make a change, the path of what I want to do has been well-tread by others.

My phone only updates until Jan 2026 so I'll be fine. I reckon they'll allow installing via adb still as otherwise people won't be able to develop new android apps

Buy my friends some real computers ig

Wait and see, then panic if affected.

I'm so tired of this shit man, I no longer have any real plan.
I'm seriously considering carrying the smallest x86/ARM Tablet capable of running Linux I can alongside some cheap phone for 4G hotspot and calls/strictly necessary.

Guess PC land is the last place we still have freedom (for now!!!! 🙄🙄🙄)

1. I'll believe it when I see it.
2. I'll begin transitioning to a different linux-based os

I am hoping, that I can switch to a Fairphone with a custom ROM til next year. If I can't get the money for it until then, I Am just hoping that it will be implemented through an android Update, because in that case it won't affect me, since I Am already stuck on Android 11 or so.

Switching to a Linux phone

I don't think the new changes will mean that all sideloaded apps are banned. We don't yet know how much Google will misuse this to make installing apps that they don't find "appropriate" even though they are completely safe a burden. The verification will probably be fully automated. Can anyone clear this out?

I have been using custom ROMs since CyanogenMod and am currently mostly on GrapheneOS, some of it entirely Google-free.

Fairphone makes an effort to open source all code including device trees and encourages the developement of custom roms and alternative oses like Linux mobile. So I'll just switch to a Fairphone with a custom ROM.

I won't switch to mobile linux though since I don't want to go back to an unsandboxed environment.

I've been looking into pure Linux Phones like Ubuntu touch and the Kali Mobile thing. Shame that its limited to hardware that I can't find here

Waiting for someone in Europe to sue them.

For the immediate future, I'll be all set with GrapheneOS.

Beyond that, I'll suffer whatever inconveniences I need to in order to avoid this bullshit. If that means I can't use my banking apps, I'll find a better bank, or use the web site, or just say "fuck it all" and stop banking on my phone altogether. I've already given up NFC payments. It's not the end of the world.

This will only become a bigger pain in the ass as time goes on, I'm sure, but I will die on this hill. I suggest that everyone draw their lines in the sand sooner rather than later.

Custom roms. Support them all

I ordered a Pixel and plan to flash Graphine. I hate the cruel irony of paying Google to degoogle a phone, but my current phone is on its last legs.

Hope to keep this one alive a good few years, after that I have no clue. I hope Linux phones catch up.

Probably grapheneos until it dies (thanks Google) then 2 phones, a cheap stock one at home shutdown and no sim, only for critical services that are exclusively app based, and a Linux phone as my main.

Im sorta lazy. Did not switch to linux until windows 11 even though I should have after windows 7. I use the android that came on the phone because im lazy but I have to be able to sideload so this may turn out to be androids windows 11.

Hoping that EU comes to the rescue.

Chaos and rebellion.

Sell off any phones that I can't modify. Aggressively de-Google while setting up fake accounts to send garbage into their system training.

Light my way with the burning of bridges.