• FreedomAdvocate
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    3 hours ago

    Nah, you control your google powered phone as in you can decide to sell it, throw it away, repair it, etc. You don’t get ownership of the software that it runs though, or what that updates Google send your way. You can certainly choose not to update it, but you just miss out on anything that requires those updates - like access to the Google play services.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      You’re licking those corporate boots awfully hard for someone calling themselves Freedom advocate.

      You can certainly choose not to update it, but you just miss out on anything that requires those updates - like access to the Google play services.

      And that will do wonders for the security that Google claims is the reason behind this change, won’t it.