[HN Gopher] Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
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       Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
        
       Author : ajdude
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-03-01 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | I'm glad this article is here. This is insane. Fuck Google so
       | much for this. What's with the opening line though?
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       | > _Google is cracking down on rooted Android devices,_
       | 
       | Cracking down? On people doing a legit thing? On owning their own
       | devices?
       | 
       | What a nonsense sad state of electronics in the world. Will no
       | one stand up and fight for the user? We humanity are just being
       | paved under forever by the vicious predators of capitalism.
       | 
       | RCS suddenly seems like it can go rot, if it's going to be a
       | service only Google approved phones can use. I was excited for
       | innovation & change to come to text messaging, to not need to
       | have everyone figure out how else to text. But if Google's going
       | to shoot themselves, their users and RCS in the @$%% like this
       | all with this one stone, it's back to there being no sensible
       | clear options.
        
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