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The API behaves this way: > To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default ag
by dmantis 2mo ago
The API behaves this way:
> To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default age ranges the API returns are 0-12, 13-15, 16-17, and 18+, but you can receive custom age ranges.
https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-signals/use-age-signals-api https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-signals/use-ag...
But I don't find it any better. I don't see any viable reason to provide identification to my phone's OS. If a parent buys a phone for their child, they can already set up parental controls before handing it over.
I wish Motorola all the best with their GrapheneOS partnership.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou can also get GrapheneOS right now on Google-branded hardware, which is expensive but not enshittified.
- dmantis 2mo agoTrue. Though I have mixed feelings buying new pixel from Google after all these actions.
- theandrewbailey 2mo agoThen buy a used or open box one. There's plenty of people who try switching to Android and buy Pixels, but go back to their iPhones in a week.
- inigyou 2mo agoI don't. When they start making shit hardware, stop buying their hardware. As long as it's good, buy it. That's a free market price signal.
- gruez 2mo ago>which is expensive The rumored Motorola devices are even more expensive. It's the signature and some foldables, all in the 1000+ MSRP range. At least with pixels you can get the a series for as little as 400 on sale.
- superloika 2mo agoIf you buy one of the Motorola Grapheneos phones, you're gonna be marked. You will stand out in the crowd. It has happened before and will happen more frequently as the world becomes more authoritarian.
- inigyou 2mo agoYes, people can tell a phone is running Graphene. They just can't get in.
- dmantis 2mo agoOn the other hand, privacy becomes a luxury. People love signaling their status and standing out from the crowd. Entire car and clothing brands exist solely because of that. And if enough people stand out, it doesn't matter anymore.
- iamnothere 2mo agoOh but “the government already knows everything” as all the other privacy doomers like to say. “They” can probably already predict what phone you’re going to buy and what you’re going to eat for lunch, right? So why worry about this?
- goda90 2mo agoLineageOS is still a thing too.
- velocity3230 2mo agoBut not in the same league as GrapheneOS.