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But if Graphene chooses not to do this, they diverge from the Android project. Which will take more time to maintain the project which will ultimately lead to more developers burning out and dropping out of the project.

It doesn’t need to be affected, but most open source projects don’t have the resources to keep going against big companies when most of their users aren’t contributing.

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iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They already diverge by having a network permission and a bunch of other differences, and not being allowed to use Google Pay because of those differences

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- SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That might be true, I don’t know much about GrapheneOS. But I do know that users of open source projects expecting changes to come out of thin air, and filing bugs when they don’t, is hurting the volunteers behind open source projects. So we should all make sure to volunteer some of our own time or money to keep the projects we love going, instead of just expecting them to fix the things we dislike.
  
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- Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And more and more, apps require to be run as playstore version only with server side checks…
  
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Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The aosp has been in the process of being gutted, I surmise in preparation of these anti consumer measures, graphene os has its work cut out for it. I imagine that after the dust settles, consumers will have to pick between an immature Linux os or their personal preference of walled garden.

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tal@olio.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I would guess that it’s probably not much by way of change — theoretically, maybe just a single line patch — to cause this check not to take place.

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- SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Theoretically it might be, but it’s another patch you’ll have to maintain
  
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Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Graphene could sandbox the integrity check, just like they do with the Play Store.

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It becomes an integrity check arms race. Graphene OS devs not keen on this idea, but they may not have a choice in the near future
  
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other8026@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
GrapheneOS wasn’t going to be affected anyway and there’s nothing for the GrapheneOS developers to change. The developer verification thing will be done by proprietary Google apps. Those apps cannot get the necessary permissions to block app installs or disable apps.

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