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Google and his Darth Vader move (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by AuroraSine@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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Peace be with you, F-Droid Community. 🌹

As many probably know, Google will block Android starting 2027.

Here is my hope: Google has shot itself in the foot with this Darth Vader move, because many People who loves privacy will now switch to de-googled systems, because ( Since to my knowledge), the blockade won't affect those systems.

So this is just my Openion and my HOPE.

What's your take on this?

And I kindly say to all developers: Please don't register in Google.

There are so many people using de-googled systems now, including myself. Please keep going for us, and four you too. Please

Best wishes from Germany 🌹

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[–] Steve@communick.news 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd actually guess it's roughly 1 million globally. +-20%

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The nonprofit GrapheneOS Foundation was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Daniel Micay, Dmytro Mukhomor, and Khalykbek Yelshibekov in March 2023. It received large contributions from donors such as Ethereum developer Vitalik Buterin and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. As of April 2026, the operating system had approximately 400,000 active users.

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obviously thats just graphene. i use e/os on my phone. not sure how many other distros there are...

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most Graphene users are still using Google, but in sandboxed mode. Very few, myself among them, are willing to put up with the downsides of no GPS

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Umm, I have GPS on my Goog-less main profile no problem. The other profile with Play (just banking, parking and employer-subvented lunch app) also does. So not accurate.

[–] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait you can have a profile with play for banking apps etc? Can you detail it a bit? What phone and system Do you use?

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

GrapheneOS on Pixel 8a. Yes one can 👍

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Other commenter beat me to it, but I meant Google Play Services, sorry for the confusion

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They meant Google Play Services, not the Global Positioning System (confusing, I know)

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LineageOS is a big one compatible with many devices.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I would think that LineageOS has more users than any other alternative.

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

and I'm willing to bet a signifcant part of the userbase installs GApps after installing LOS. or at least microG.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago

microG is still degoogled?