So much for those fake open standards created by Google and can only be used by Google
Sending a message should never fail silently, so that’s an improvement, but fuck whoever decided this.
That’s what I was thinking, but reading the article it’s apparently not related to sending messages. It’s simpler.
Google blocks RCS on rooted devices. And at the moment they don’t tell the user that at all, it just fails to work. So actively the worst way to handle it.
Don’t use Google apps
I don’t trust any of them honestly
Now to see if they mean actually rooted devices, or anything with a non-stock OS.
GrapheneOS stopped working years ago. Silently.
RCS works on GrapheneOS.
I mean, I’m on /e/os and RCS just sits there in “Setting up” eventually just uninstalled Google nessages. RCS is obviously key to their global spying program or something. E2E my ass.
Like everything else now, they no longer check any of that directly. It’s all handled via Play Integrity API. If the device fails the Play Integrity check it will fail.
Lol, still using sms.
We need a better open protocol
The enshittification continues unabated.
RCS is an upgrade on SMS. The whole point of rooting is to circumvent restrictions, so wait for someone to stop shit talking modern protocols and figure out how to get it working. The idea that rooting was about making things easier was always a myth. It was never that.
You can absolutely make a modern protocol
Good luck convincing anyone to use it or implement it
Most users don’t change defaults. It’s the default in both Android and iOS.
This is actually an improvement.
Better to give an error message, than to silently fail.Yes, but blocking RCS from rooted devices has always been a control move. I’ve had to deal with it for the last year plus since I root to hide tether.
They’re both enshittification, telling you why is an extra “fuck you” on top of something that shouldn’t happen in the first place.
It is better than silent failure
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It will now loudly fail.
Just ordered my first iphone. :s
Send it back. Not a good alternative
Depends. When it comes to privacy they’re a step up from virtually all vanilla Android distributions. And if you care about things like NFC payments and banking apps working reliably (= not potentially breaking with an update to the app or OS) in general that’s your only option with Android. I’m not switching to a Pixel with Graphene, it just doesn’t do what I need my phone to do. I might switch to an iPhone if the EU actually manages to force them to cut the walled garden crap.
Why? Did you know about custom ROMs such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS before the purchase?
Yes. Assumed the most secure second hand phone under 400 would be an iphone.
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