This article goes into more detail about how these new measures will actually work compared to the blog post earlier this year from Google. Namely:
- Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will no longer prevent FRP from activating.
- Bypassing the setup wizard will no longer deactivate FRP. FRP restrictions will apply until you verify ownership of the device by signing in.
- Adding a new Google account is blocked.
- Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
- Installing new apps is blocked.
Until they sign back in to their own phone…? How is that a pain?
Not eveyrone has or needs a google or any system-wide account to use their phones.
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I should have provided more info. I am not defending that FRPs should not exist, rather that there should be an option to utilize them without an account.
Graphene devs are considering using a random code similar to an account restoration.
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because I want to get rid of google, and not use or even have a google account anymore
Then don’t buy their devices? What a novel solution.
Who’s devices? This is not a manufacturer dependent thing.
Android is useful without any google built-in software, and unfortunately it’s not affordable to avoid having a smartphone in today’s world.
If you wanted to say to not buy Android devices, all I can say is you are very ignorant. And ignorance is a lot of things but novel.
I do not know if your being sarcastic, ignorant, or lazy, but there are other companies out there that produce cheap phones with operating systems other than android.
Who please? All I know of are Apple, or Nothing Phone- they’re not cheap IMO.
Genuinely interested though, I’d love to deGoogle.
Since you asked nicely:
https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/
https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/devices/
https://shop.jolla.com/details/91eb91d3-c3de-41d0-b3c0-7075a339112d/
There’s a reason iOS and Android OS both dominate the market: they do literally everything all these phones attempt to do but better in pretty much every single way, including the ability to easily de-Google ironically.