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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid (www.neowin.net)
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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

This is why I didn't bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple's anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.

I'm at the point where I won't bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they're open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.

but.. this doesn't make any sense. the roms you brought up can be still used indefinitely, they will still be able to install any apps. maybe except when they have installed the official google suite, but that's always a user choice in the popular android rom world, none of these preinstall it, and microg users are not affected