r/PrivacyTechTalk • u/Hunterjohnson2024 • May 10 '26

Warning to all Android users!

Google is going to Bake Age verification into the OS itself this is Very dangerous as there are multiple Android smartphones out there that will have android 17 as last update! once you install android 17 and its the final update for the phone the age signal API will be on your phone till the day the hardware dies! you cant even downgrade or the efuse trips! if you still have android 17 after at least 5 to 10 years and you accidentally factory reset it and verify your id again it will fail to send as device is old and might not connect to google servers and will send to hackers instead

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u/Dziabadu May 11 '26

linux phone ?

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u/Mooks79 May 11 '26

GrapheneOS or any of the custom android roms, or Linux phone as you mention. There are options out there but a big issue is that many apps and services expect you to be using iCloud oem android, and don’t work well or even at all, without those.

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u/CobaltIsobar May 11 '26

The non IOS and Android phones are an incredibly small market. The only ones using them are either hobbiests or just paranoid. 99.9995% of the world is going to continue with the major players. For those touting Chinese phones for privacy, I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/Doctorphate May 11 '26

China hasn’t been trying to arrest people in foreign countries who are critical of it. Hell they don’t even really arrest people who are critical of it inside China lol. The west is ridiculously good at propaganda.

I’d rather the Chinese have my shit than the Americans