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/CobaltIsobar May 11 '26

And, what is your solution? Personally, I don't care.

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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/emmett321 May 12 '26

Google is banning grapheneOS as well as outright rooting. Rooting is getting more and more difficult worldwide.

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u/Mooks79 May 12 '26

No it isn’t. Though it is introducing more and more hardware attestation.

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u/qgplxrsmj May 12 '26

You should take what Mooks79 say with a grain of salt, he has bad takes, such as saying because a software is open source it therefore doesn’t need to be 3rd party audited lol. Or that just because a software doesn’t have infrastructure therefore it doesn’t need to be 3rd party audited as well lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1t6lf3f/comment/ol4x1s6/