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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Whitelisted@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't the viable Linux phone Android at first? (I am younger than the iPhone so maybe I don't really know how it was)

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

By Linux I mean “FOSS” phone. Android is based on Linux, but it is also loaded with spyware out of the box. If you’d asked me 18 years ago whether there would be a viable FOSS phone by now, I would’ve thought yes. But, postmarketOS still advertises itself as “not ready yet” and Ubuntu Touch is still pretty niche.