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I'm wondering if the EU is complicit in this somehow, despite claiming that they want to fight back against tech companies. The EU Commission is currently push

I'm wondering if the EU is complicit in this somehow, despite claiming that they want to fight back against tech companies. The EU Commission is currently pushing the shitty EU Identity Wallet for mandatory age verification, and it requires GooglePlay Services to be installed for "anti-tampering". That also means a ban on non official versions of Android like LineageOS and GrapheneOS.

zoobab 6mo ago
The DMA team replied to me that they did not see any legal issues with Google enforcing mandatory ID for sideloading apps. We need an urgent upgrade of the DMA v2.O, in the fast paced Omnibus package. Feel free to post proposals here.
- zoobab 6mo ago
  On the DMA, I have said that it does not go far enough, the Operating System (OS) market should be opened up, with a regulation in place so that alternative mobile and non-mobile OSes can be installed by the end user, notably by the mandatory registration and publication of technical hardware specifications, unlocking of bootloaders, etc... 30 years ago, the Linux community fought the pre-installed Windows tax and mostly lost that fight.
hrmtst93837 6mo ago
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