Donations to postmarket os surge!

So what's the strategy after September? Do I need to jailbreak to be able to install my .apk's?

Eat the rich?

Switch to GrapheneOS.

That's the overarching strategy. But I mean specifically if I want to continue sideloading .apk's onto my Android

If you read the article it tells you very clearly

My moto was dying so I got a new one. If they release a Linux that works for this phone I'm going to jump right in. If not I'll wait patiently for whatever they're cooking up with a Linux distro in it. Better if it's native and not on fucking Google shitware.

What level of android enforced this bullshit? Is it android it's self, play services, play store? I could run Linux or alternative android based operating systems on my phone. I don't even use the play store, pretty much everything I use is from fdroid, plus a few direct APK downloads like steamlink. Valve are based and actually let you download the APK files directly from them. Why do so many others make it difficult or impossible to obtain them?

It's only on devices running Google Shit Services. In other words, if you're on an AOSP device with no Google Apps installed, you're fine.

They are currently installed but I don't really want them for anything. Might be time to install another OS on my phone. I haven't even logged into a Google account on it. I don't need them.

Then I would see if your phone supports lineage OS since it doesn't come with Google Play Services and Google Apps by default.

I haven't had a phone with Google Apps or Google Play services on it since 2019 and it works perfectly well.

Actually, I'd say it even works better, because then you don't have all that spyware draining your battery and taking up system resources. So, I can make do with a cheap phone and get good performance out of it.

Fair phone 4, I know it supports e/OS and you can even buy some of their phones with that installed. PostmarketOS is another but I don't think everything works properly.

GrapheneOS with sandboxed PlayService should be fine?

Good job getting out before the barbed wire fences were put up.

Switch to Calyx and Graphene until Google reduces AOSP before finally killing it.

Calyx will be a more secure option compared to e/OS once the next stable release comes out.