F-Droid has warned that over the past few months, Google has pushed a malicious programme known as the Android Developer Verifier to as many as 4 billion Android devices
https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html
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brillotti@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 61d
They're not wrong
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 61d
This is a good time to remind people that if you install a custom ROM from https://xdaforums.com/ (that's where most instructions are at any rate), you can install a version of Android with no google services whatsoever, including no play store
vatlark@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 61d
Where is the motorola graphene OS phone? This would be a great day to launch.
bad1080@piefed.social · 1 pts · 60d
afaik this will be for corporations only and not sold to consumers directly
vatlark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Oh, I hadn't heard that. Is that a common business model for phones?
bad1080@piefed.social · 2 pts · 60d
i mean it has been a thing for sure, motorola builds the radio and wifi systems in cop cars for example. the phone part may be new but it seems to be of the idea "corporations may need privacy but consumers don't deserve it".
Marija@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 41d
Users deserve to know what's running on their devices.