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Your Google Android device is about to stop being yours (keepandroidopen.org)
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Is this still going to happen? What can we do?

Edit: Complain to your competent authorities here: https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/#consumers

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[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Follow that link and scroll down for what to do.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying that this only affects Google Androids.

Androids without Google are unaffected

[–] Sightline@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't really help. I need to know how to completely disable updates on my phone.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 12 hours ago

You can't disable updates to Google Play Services.

[–] Nexus@infosec.pub 0 points 1 day ago

Thanks! 🙂 I'll go through them. So, it's really happening?