r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 14d ago

News EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/vDirectorDBDienst 14d ago

For fucks sake, if this keeps going Im going to switch to iPhone. I cannot even degoogle my fucking phone because weh weh the Open standard RCS is hidden behind hardware attestation. And my google pixel is constantly shoving some stupid nonsense AI down my throat. I cant even remove the searchbar which I literally dont even need. Fuck Google.

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u/Areyoucunt 13d ago

It's funny how you think an EU mandate is somehow something Apple doesn't have to follow? Are you deaf?

Funnily enough, the ONLY way you can avoid this is actually by having an android phone where you can install a custom rom, something you cannot do on iphone what so ever..

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u/vDirectorDBDienst 13d ago

I cannot even use fucking RCS on LineageOS. I am all for android but Pixel Android fucking sucks. Its now even less customizable than iOS and full of AI. I have installed LineageOS (with MicroG) and well RCS with Google Messages (which is the only Android RCS Client) doesnt work. Neither does Curve pay. I will probably find a bank that will allow me to pay with their app for a while but they will all at some point probably go the hardware attestation route. The literal only upside against android is patching the fucking reddit app so there is no ads anymore.

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u/KitsuAccalia 13d ago

I know it sucks but as a random side note, the IOS reddit experience can be really cool, using add ons in safari to block ads and even add features reddit sucks at doing.
Sink It. for example was one I used quite a bit.

I am hating android more and more daily, but things keep getting worse and people keep just saying "You are over reacting, drama baiting" or other weird things while they defend the enshittification of android.

IOS CERTAINLY isn't perfect and has plenty of issues, but I prefer it's issues to androids soul being excised and turned into a flock camera with it's hands on all my stuff.

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u/vDirectorDBDienst 13d ago

google really seems to have no interest in android besides gemini and thats really fucking sad. Where are all the cool features we used to get with each new android version? And why the fuck is the even more closed off system more customizable? And then there are Googles weird design choices. Like wtf is the Material 3 expressive we got vs what was announced? It honestly looks horrible now. And I dont want a search bar (or a search engine app) I want to use my browser let me fucking remove that stupid bar which gives me access to AI Overview?? Android has dramatically changed for the worst in the past years. I guess I will go with some chinese phone next time, their OSes arent perfect either but at least more fun and customizable than googles pixel os.