It is now available in the new release (still in alpha at the moment) to opt in to use the additional security patches from November and December.
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I am really torn about this. Great for security, but GOS proposing those release is going to validate Google delaying open-sourcing critical security patches.
It feels illegal to me. Why is a company allowed to purposely not release patches that will secure millions of AOSP devices?
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Men, 2025 is exhausting in terms of privacy. It almost feel coordinatedā¦.
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It is. All governments hate GOS. Pretty sure nation states (or their intelligence services) have put pressure on Google to make this happen.
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I hope not. I hope its just Google being idiotic with its antitrust and being overly protective of its Android ecosystem as it ever so slightly slips out of their control.
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I understand why speculation is rampant in this thread, but I am not sure why people believe it has anything to do with custom OS distributions or GrapheneOS. Any harms to those projects seem entirely incidental to them and I doubt they alter their business plans around that. Blog - Divested Computing from SkewedZeppelin provides a nice overview of some of the bad decisions Google are making.
I honestly think the only way to know if custom Android distrubitions are in the scope of their targets is if they remove/disable bootloader unlocking for future Pixel phones. This hasnāt been the case for the Pixel 10 series release, so weāll see if things change with the Pixel 10a/Pixel 11.
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