This is very odd, agree with the devs. Seems like a very aggressive action and with no reasoning behind it?
I wonder what the real story is… What had GrapheneOS enabled (or blocked) on user phones that got their executives so pissed they’d explicitly block GrapheneOS users from their apps?
I’m sure we’ll get that transparency any minute now. Same transparency I’m waiting for why my work is going for Return-to-office while simultaneously short on desks to return to office.
It’s just stupid oversight, they switched to the Play Store API, which naturally excludes Graphene OS. But mind you this is the same managerial incompetence that brought us the lack of a Volks-Wagen (an affordable car that is) from Volkswagen, withdrawing partially from BEVs just as they get fully embraced and the sales start to accelerate, and of course who could forget the let’s be honest fully C-suite ordered Diesel exhaust cheating.
At this point, Volkswagen needs to be shut down and all middle~executive management needs to be prosecuted going back 20 or so years. They’re all criminally incompetent and ruined thousands of livelihoods with their negligence.
They changed something in the play integrity or one of those similar libraries. They’re not explicitly targeting GrapheneOS, it’s affecting some other platforms too. It was also affecting iPhones, but I think they’ve since fixed that.
Maybe, the technical explanation is hopefully forthcoming. The article (which I will concede doesn’t seem super professional) explicitly says “banned by Volkswagen”, which is what I’m curious about.
Thanks for that! Sounds like SEAT and Cupra (both have Volkswagen Group as their parent companies) are also affected - I wonder when this will spread to other Volkswagen & Porche-owned brands. What a terrible move for consumer choice/security/etc.
This is very odd, agree with the devs. Seems like a very aggressive action and with no reasoning behind it?
I wonder what the real story is… What had GrapheneOS enabled (or blocked) on user phones that got their executives so pissed they’d explicitly block GrapheneOS users from their apps?
I’m sure we’ll get that transparency any minute now. Same transparency I’m waiting for why my work is going for Return-to-office while simultaneously short on desks to return to office.
It’s just stupid oversight, they switched to the Play Store API, which naturally excludes Graphene OS. But mind you this is the same managerial incompetence that brought us the lack of a Volks-Wagen (an affordable car that is) from Volkswagen, withdrawing partially from BEVs just as they get fully embraced and the sales start to accelerate, and of course who could forget the let’s be honest fully C-suite ordered Diesel exhaust cheating.
At this point, Volkswagen needs to be shut down and all middle~executive management needs to be prosecuted going back 20 or so years. They’re all criminally incompetent and ruined thousands of livelihoods with their negligence.
They changed something in the play integrity or one of those similar libraries. They’re not explicitly targeting GrapheneOS, it’s affecting some other platforms too. It was also affecting iPhones, but I think they’ve since fixed that.
Maybe, the technical explanation is hopefully forthcoming. The article (which I will concede doesn’t seem super professional) explicitly says “banned by Volkswagen”, which is what I’m curious about.
It’s shitty journalism. The source is this https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app
Thanks for that! Sounds like SEAT and Cupra (both have Volkswagen Group as their parent companies) are also affected - I wonder when this will spread to other Volkswagen & Porche-owned brands. What a terrible move for consumer choice/security/etc.
They didn’t block explicitly Graphene OS.