r/Android • u/RedditForcesToLogin • Nov 11 '25

Video How to Keep Android Open

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hh5n3IqocPQ&si=2Xbj567AWKwFgaU8
510 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

209 comments sorted by

View all comments

103

u/RedditForcesToLogin Nov 11 '25

Developers have to: 1) Pay a fee to Google 💲

2) Agree to Google's Terms & Conditions. So, no Revanced / Newpipe 👩‍⚖️

3) Upload their government ID to a foreign company

What Users lose: 1) Many apps will Stop working, devs wouldn't want to PAY to Google to keep their free app alive. 2) Countries like Russia / Iran,

No sideloading = No VPN = No freedom.

48

u/dumbledayum Nov 11 '25

and these used to be selling points for android (flagships, cheap phones have the benefit of cost)

while iOS now has Ublock origin for safari.

Seems like if you pay a premium, you should be in the other team

16

u/Brachamul Nov 11 '25

That's uBlock Lite though, which has to comply with Chromium standards and is watered-down vs the real uBlock Origin.

4

u/dumbledayum Nov 11 '25

Yea, probably Firefox in future could have it on iOS, but they need to port their Browser engine. Even though iOS allows that now, browsers are still using webkit

1

u/Paumas Nov 12 '25

Any known updates on this? Do we know if there is someone even working on porting a non webkit engine to iOS?

1

u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/dumbledayum Nov 13 '25

not… successfully. It tries, but fails more than it succeeds in doing any prominent blocking

1

u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/dumbledayum Nov 13 '25

Yea Orion doesn't really provide what it promises. But I am glad that it's dev it trying.
In terms of how bad it is... It is Worse than Safari+ubol and Brave Browser