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Comment by cbg0

7 hours ago

> How would these laws prevent me from just side loading my own open source client?

They do not.

You need open hardware and open software at that point and you won't be able to use government identification as they depend on closed source parts of the Android ecosystem. Also you need identification for side loading apps at some point.

Non of these laws stop you from opting out of surveillance, but altogether it gets so hard that at some point you get more suspicious and tracked if you do all this than if you don't do any of these.

  • Assuming these concerns were real you could just turn the app into a website.