For those to whom this made you think GrapheneOS, they're opposed as this is basically substituting Goodle for another proprietary system with no meaningful improvement to security.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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@GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS.social is such a toxic account, holy shit. They are always fire and brimstone. It's as if they don't have a "chill" nor "constructive"mode.
It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity
substituting Goodle for another proprietary system
I'd really appreciate it more if Graphene folk would be more constructive with criticism, because very often it comes across as incoherent and knee jerk rants. Really off-putting.
GrapheneOS themselves never said it's proprietary. This is (part of) what they actually said:
Play Integrity API should be regulated out of existence rather than making another system where companies permit their own products while disallowing others. It shouldn't be legal when Google does it and it shouldn't be legal when Volla and Murena do it either. This is wrong.
Yes please!
I like the idea of having my GrapheneOS phone as a backup for occasions when I forget my card/cash, but I have no interest in allowing proprietary services the deep system-level access & PII invasion that Google Pay and Google Play services require to enable it.
P.s. hope some EU org aims at a non-proprietary Android Auto next, and then in my dreams non-proprietary Chromecast.