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So there’s going to be a different problem with that age verification proposal of EU. You’ll need officially Google- (and Apple-) approved firmware, otherwise your phone’s processor won’t give an attestation and the age verification won’t go through. Goodbye Linux, goodbye GrapheneOS, goodbye LineageOS. Only corporate systems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1mau7yl/eu_age_verification_app_to_ban_any_android_system/

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The Daniel 🖖 5mo ago

Cool, so they handed a single tech behemoth a monopoly over the entire continent?

Whatever the “European dream” was (if such a thing ever even existed) is dead. They deserve what they get.

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Juraj 5mo ago

Yes and no. Their problem with app store monopolies is that the payments go through them. They don't have a problem with control over free apps. They actually enjoy it that they can kick out non compliant apps.

In their worldview it's not that you are able to replace one store with another, but that you have a choice to use multiple stores.