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.

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.

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.

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.

@GrapheneOS I'm actually looking at going back to a flip phone... Fucking tired of the app-centric world.

@ShredderFeeder You won't have privacy/security using carrier-based calls rather than end-to-end encrypted messaging. Decent smartphones are also much more secure than desktops or laptops.

@Hyolobrika @ShredderFeeder It's not GrapheneOS despite being marketed that way. They forked from an old GrapheneOS release and didn't keep up with the newer releases. They ended up with lots of issues because of this. The devices also don't meet our security requirements. They aren't actually contributing back to the project either.