Google and his Darth Vader move

Peace be with you, F-Droid Community. 🌹

As many probably know, Google will block Android starting 2027.

Here is my hope: Google has shot itself in the foot with this Darth Vader move, because many People who loves privacy will now switch to de-googled systems, because ( Since to my knowledge), the blockade won't affect those systems.

So this is just my Openion and my HOPE.

What's your take on this?

And I kindly say to all developers: Please don't register in Google.

There are so many people using de-googled systems now, including myself. Please keep going for us, and four you too. Please

Best wishes from Germany 🌹

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Steve 129 points 6 days ago

I think you're overestimating the de-Google community.
I'd be astonished if there was 10 million of us. Compared to a few Billion normies, we're a rounding error in their accounting.

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beveradb 66 points 6 days ago

I'd be shocked if there was even 1 million people globally using fully de-googled phones tbh

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Steve 18 points 6 days ago

I'd actually guess it's roughly 1 million globally. +-20%

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dadarobot 35 points 6 days ago

The nonprofit GrapheneOS Foundation was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Daniel Micay, Dmytro Mukhomor, and Khalykbek Yelshibekov in March 2023. It received large contributions from donors such as Ethereum developer Vitalik Buterin and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. As of April 2026, the operating system had approximately 400,000 active users.

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obviously thats just graphene. i use e/os on my phone. not sure how many other distros there are...

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Carrot 9 points 5 days ago

Most Graphene users are still using Google, but in sandboxed mode. Very few, myself among them, are willing to put up with the downsides of no GPS

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tasankovasara 6 points 5 days ago

Umm, I have GPS on my Goog-less main profile no problem. The other profile with Play (just banking, parking and employer-subvented lunch app) also does. So not accurate.

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Carrot 5 points 5 days ago

Other commenter beat me to it, but I meant Google Play Services, sorry for the confusion

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