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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps (arstechnica.com)
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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes but do they support the digital national ID and SSO apps that are (only) avaliable for android and apple? Until they do, a lot of users are going to be locked into those two big OS vendors. 😞

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

If you don't need any of thatΒΈ you're good!

Enjoy your new linux phone!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get it.

you're in a thread discussing the finer points of privacy concerns about a corporation snooping on your apps and your only example of a barrier to not use a privacy focused product is...your requirement for government backdoors and spyware?

also SSO works just fine on eOS. unless you're talking about googles MFA. at that point why are you even concerned about privacy?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

eOS is Android

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

eOS is forked AOSP and has all Google "contributions" removed.

so yes. it's Android.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

and so, OP's SSO problems are null since eOS has no issue running it due to it just being android under the hood.

that apk doesn't install on arm Linux. Comparing eOS to Postmarket is apples to oranges. eOS is still chained by the buttcheeks to AOSP and Android.

AOSP may not contain google services, but you're still at their mercy. No Google = No AOSP, or whenever they feel like it. Tomorrow, maybe.