The f-droid team spoke to that in a recent post. They can't do that for legal reasons. The post basically said that if that change isn't stopped on a government level there's no way for them to continue working. They didn't mention roms.
They really can't, I'm not blaming them. Maybe they could pivot ressources to contribute to sailfish or postmarket in some form. Android is pretty much dead for people who want to own their devices at this point.
Jesus that post is bleak. It's basically "Please write your political representative to do something or we're forced to close up shop". Since all our political representatives are walking around with massive hard-ons at the idea of surveilling us, it's basically a poorly veiled good bye note.
Now more than ever people will have to choose between privacy and comfort. And not to be a dick, but now more than ever, people choosing comfort are fucking over people who choose privacy.
I don't think privacy enthusiasts use vanilla Android. People will stick to Lineage/Graphene for as long as it works and then switch to something like Postmarket. It's already in a state where it's rough but usable.
Call me a conspiracy nut job , but I honestly think we live in a new age where it's the other way around. Megacorps are creating a situation where governments are set up to fail and then swoop in to save the day "alien earth" style, so everyone can be forced into lifetime indentured service.
While I full heartily agree with you, I'm pessimistic you will ever reach enough people with these alternatives. Even on privacy forums you hear people fervently defending how banking apps are mandatory. Those will never run on anything that isn't locked down. The eID proposal for the EU is also dependent on Android and iOS.
I know it's a pipe dream, but what if WhatsApp chooses to not compromise their encryption either. You'd have chat control but no chatting. Would be kinda interesting to see.
Signal is nice because it has a pretty good adoption rate even with non techies (which is why they've been mentioned by name in the chat control proposal). But privacy enthusiasts will still have briar/simplechat/xmpp. Those aren't centralised like Signal and will be a lot harder to regulate
Doesn't Signal work with phone numbers? They will probably block every EU number from accessing the service to protect themselves legally. Maybe you could use something like jmp.chat to circumvent that? Probably need a VPN as well to mask your IP. In any case, it will decimate the user base, so you're left chatting with yourself anyway.
Wouldn't the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.
It's almost as if "humanity" is a romanticised concept peddled by Hollywood and humans are actually just cancerous scum, with exceptions proving the rule.
Vor einigen Jahren als Chat Kontrolle noch ein neues Thema war hab ich auch so gedacht. Aber das basiert auf Prinzipien die konstant und systematisch erodiert werden. Wo kriegste denn deine FOSS her? Wahrscheinlich Github. Und MS wird da nicht lange fackeln und den Forks den Hahn zudrehen. Haben wir ja schon mit Yuzu und Ryujinx erlebt. Ok, dann weichen wir halt auf irgendwelche Codeberg Instanzen aus. Jetzt ist aber ggf. die Codebase gesplittet und du musst mit deinen Kontakten ausdiskutieren welche die Richtige ist. Auf einem regulären Handy kriegst du es eh nicht mehr installiert wegen Apple und neuerdings auch Android vendor lockdown.
Es betrübt mich sehr das zugeben zu müssen, aber die gehen das schon sehr durchdacht mit der Industrie zusammen an, um eine flächendeckende Überwachung durchzusetzen. Sicherlich wird es irgendwelche Schlupflöcher geben, aber die werden halt kriminalisiert. Und Oma Gertrud wirst du dazu nicht motiviert bekommen.
Have a look at the world views of tech billionaires like Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel. They've been going on about control of peoples digital life for at least a decade now, even before the popularisation of LLMs. These guys are laying the brick work for a deus ex style corpocracy.
