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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:17

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/google-loses-dojs-big-monopoly-trial-over-search-business/

Action is still urgently needed to address the highly anti-competitive Google Mobiles Services licensing system and the Play Integrity API which are a major part of Google maintaining their monopolies over search and many parts of the mobile market.

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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:19

We recently published a detailed thread about this here:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878067304840664

We're in contact with the regulators in MULTIPLE countries about this. Don't fall for Google pretending Play Integrity API is security related or that their licensing system is about compatibility.

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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:28

Android and Chromium would massively benefit from proper collaboration between stakeholders without Google's business model getting in the way. Should be forced to deal with both following the model of the LLVM Foundation and also spin off Google Play into an independent company.

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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:30

Google is actively cracking down on competition in the mobile space by convincing app developers to use their Play Integrity API. Play Integrity API bans using operating systems not licensing Google's apps/services and agreeing to highly restrictive and anti-competitive terms.

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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:33

Google's licensing agreement directly bans OEMs from working with GrapheneOS and producing phones with it. Google sabotages their own products such as the Play Store to boost core monopolies. If it was a competitive market, they'd want their apps and services available to any OS.

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Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-06 at 19:37

GrapheneOS has demonstrated Google Play works well as regular sandboxed apps without any special integration into the OS via our sandboxed Google Play feature. Google should be forced to spin off Google Play into an independent company competing with other app stores / services.

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Toot

Written by DukeVonLeo :mastodon: on 2024-08-07 at 00:23

@GrapheneOS Yeah. I hope you guys can revert this push for Play Integrity for the sake of us all. Unfortunately for me I have to go back to stock because one core app that I need daily at my job stopped working on GrapheneOS coulple of months ago. It doesn't even show in Play Store and sideloading apk throws an error upon login.

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Descendants

Written by GrapheneOS on 2024-08-07 at 01:15

@dukevonleo Which app? Did you contact the app developers and show them https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide?

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