I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
Link to the change.org petition; they have 1,82,263 signatures as of posting this, add yours to the list, I have already added mine.
Link to their open letter, which has signatories of 71 organizations from 23 countries.
Link to the page of their project you can edit, should you have any useful information.
Link to Google's Developer verification survey, for all the good it'll do, it's still worth a shot.
Link to Keep Android Open Wiki.
Link to the Consumer Rights Wiki.
I have seen people in the comments mentioning about how this won't work, and all I have to say to that is do not borrow grief from the future, if you're going to claim defeat just when the battle has started, it's not much of a battle than it is being a bystander. When outcomes have not yet existed physically, anything goes, I read this advice post whenever I'm in need of motivation, and it might be out of place, but I think you should, too. Good advice is when you can apply it to anything, and I think this counts, whatever motives you, goes.
If you're wondering what's the harm or what's the big deal and isn't this just - I'm going to stop you right there, please, keepandroidopen has covered all their bases on that as well.
You've never written a regulator email before? Don't worry, neither have I, but it should be no different from any other email. Just be polite and specific and to the point, and you should be good.
Dear [Title],
I am writing to you as a concerned citizen and technology user to respectfully raise an issue I believe warrants regulatory attention, which is the preservation of the openess of the Android operating system.
This is ncreasing friction around sideloading through repeated warnings and permission barriers that discourage users from exercising their legal right to install software of their choosing.
Pre-installed applications and services that are difficult or impossible for users to remove, effectively tying users to specific service providers without meaningful consent.
API and Play Services dependencies that make it technically challenging for alternative app ecosystems or forked Android distributions to function competitively.
This, if left unaddressed, is a risk that consolidates control that reduces consumer autonomy, concerns that I understand fall squarely within your mandate.
I respectfully urge your office to ensure that core Android APIs remain available to competing ecosystems on fair and non-discriminatory terms and help safeguard consumer autonomy.
I would like to kindly request a written acknowledgement of the complaint. Thank you for your time and for the important work your office does.
Yours Sincerly,
[Your Name]
If you know your history, you know that change has only ever been brought about by people making change. By people standing up for what they believe and know is right. History has taught you that battles are bloody, and in that, you forget that battles are also won.
You forget that every right you hold today was a fight someone else started. And here we are again, the battlefield looks different, but the battle is the same. An open platform is not a technical preference and it should not belong to a single company's interest. The moment we accept that a corporation decides what software you can run on a device you paid for, we have accepted something our ancestors would have recognised immediately as control.
They fought kings for less - and you know this, alright? I know you do. History is not some abstract, vague concept. History is not just meant to be in just be read in your history books. History is not made of people who waited, history is full of hope and spite and stubborness and life, and you are part of history, and you are alive.
Hello! Bit of a sensitive ask, but I wondered if you’d ever done a post going into Paul’s grief after losing John? I’m struggling to find any real concrete accounts about what his life was like immediately after his death and how he reacted to it and dealt with it (besides writing Here Today). Love your work and thank you in advance!
Hi! A couple of years ago I made a compilation of quotes that reflect Paul's grief over time, but I don't recall any post where I discussed it explicitly. So I will take the opportunity to do it here. I will focus mainly in the 80s.
Though Paul said that after the "it's a drag" remark he went home that day and "cried buckets," there's evidence that he experienced what is called delayed grief (which happens when the brain basically goes into "survival mode" during the initial trauma) and didn't really have an emotional release until some time later. His brother Mike said this: "The next morning, Paul called on the phone and asked me to keep sending him good vibes from Liverpool to help him get through the rest of the day. He felt like he couldn't go on anymore. Paul didn't cry over John's loss until some time later." Eric Stewart said that during sessions in early 1981, one day: "Paul fell into a lugubrious mood. He said, 'I've just realized that John is gone. John's gone. He's dead and he is not coming back.' And he looked completely dismayed, like shocked at something that had just hit him. I said, 'Well, it's been a few weeks now.' He said, 'I know, Eric, but I've just realized.'" And Carl Perkins said this: "I just started singing [My Old Friend] again, and Paul really started to cry. At the end of the song he walked outside the studio and stood by the pool and he was really going at it. And Linda put her arms around me and said, 'Thank you so much.' She said Paul hadn't been able to cry, to really get it out, since Lennon was killed the previous December. This was February 2nd." Although biographer Christopher Sandford doesn't say who told him this, he wrote that right before Paul started recording again in February, he would lock himself in his home studio and play Just Like Starting Over again and again, at top volume, for weeks. Andy Peebles, who was one of the last people to interview John, said that Paul went to meet him personally, and all he wanted to know was if John still loved him. He wanted to be reassured of it. Andy told him: "John talked about you in the interview. He was sarcastic, funny and irreverent, but there was no doubting his fondness for you." Andy said that Paul started crying. One of the people who worked in Paul's studio said that some days after John's death, Yoko called Paul: "He told everybody to clear the room. And Paul took the call. I just closed the door and he was crying — he'd lost his best friend."
Paul said that for months, any mention of "guns," "shot," or similar words triggered him. He said that not long after John's death, there was some bird hunting going on in the woods nearby, and Linda had to go and tell them to stop because it was upsetting Paul. In almost every 80s interview, Paul says that he still can't say the words "John's death" because he still doesn't believe it and hasn't come to terms with it. He said: "You might as well ask me how I coped with my mum's death when I was 14 and she died from cancer at 40. I dealt with it badly." He also said there are moments when he is telling stories about John to his children when the memories become too much emotionally: "I start thinking about him or talking to the kids about him and I can't handle it. [...] "I choke up. I care very deeply, but I don't know what to do with my care."
Also in the 80s, a guy who worked on one of his albums said that he once called Paul in the afternoon to discuss something work-related, and out of nowhere Paul started talking about John and the Beatles nonstop, just rambling about them, for hours. Another guy — I forgot his name — said that Paul took him for a ride around the city and started playing Beatles songs over and over. He said Paul told him he was doing it because Linda wouldn't allow him to play them in the house anymore (the 80s was a period where their marriage was particularly rocky). Peter Cox, who worked with Linda on her cookbook in the late 80s, said that on the very first day he met the McCartneys to talk about work, Paul casually took him out for a walk and started talking about John a lot, always in the present tense: "John says this","John thinks that." Not too long after, Paul himself said in an interview: "It gets sadder and sadder to be saying 'was.' Nearer to when he died I couldn't believe I was saying 'was,' but now I do believe I'm saying 'was.' I've resisted it. I've tried to pretend he didn't get killed." He also said: "I know I will never get over it and hope I will never get over it." David Ambrose, and EMI excutive who knew Paul in the 70s and 80s, talked about how much Paul misses John, that his death made Paul "slightly nuts", and that this negatively affected the quality of his songwriting afterwards.
While interviewing him for his Beatles biography, Bob Spitz went to Paul's house and spoke to him personally. At one point he asked Paul when he missed John most and when John crossed his mind. Spitz said: "He couldn't answer me for a long time and his eyes teared up... [then] he lost it, he completely lost it." (this was in the mid-90s). We also have Give My Regards to Broad Street in 1984, written and directed by Paul himself, which contains this scene (after a guy is stabbed to death). While making Liverpool Oratorio, Paul included a segment in which a person was recovering in a hospital, and a nurse asks them, "Do you know who you are?" This inspired by something that happened after John was shot. The paramedic wanted to see if he was conscious and asked him, "Do you know who you are?" John faintly nodded and died shortly afterward. While explaining the scene, Paul got a bit choked up and said: "Not a day goes by when I don't think of John."
He would also write songs like My Brave Face, which contains lyrics such as: "Ever since you went away I've had this sentimental inclination..." "I wanna go bury my head in your pillow..." "Now that I'm alone again I can't stop breaking down again. The simplest things set me off again." This was the promotional photo for the song:
He would continue writing songs with themes of not telling someone that he loved them, such as Yvonne's the One, However Absurd, and This One. He later said (when talking about Here Today):
"Song-writing is like psychiatry, you sit down and dredge up something that’s inside, you bring it out front. I just had to be real and say ‘John, I love you.’ I think being able to say things like that in songs can keep you sane.”
In 1990, a journalist asked him, "Is there a record you like to put on just to hear John’s voice?" Paul looks startled and fumbles. “Oh, uh. There’s so much of it. I hear it on the car radio when I’m driving.” The guy replied, "No, that’s not what I mean. Isn’t there a time when you just wish you could talk to John, when you’d like to hear his voice again?" Paul instead responded to the original question:“Oh sure,” he said and looked a little taken aback. ‘Beautiful Boy".
All of this material is from the 80s and early 90s (since you said you wanted to find accounts right after John's death). However, if you look at what Paul himself—and people around him—have said from then until today, it becomes clear that he is still very much grieving. He says he's still in denial about it. His own son has said that Paul rarely talks to him about the subject because it has remained very sensitive even after all these years. I didn't elaborate on Paul's grief after the 2000s because there is simply so much material that it deserves its own separate post.
i saw you posting about '97, thoughts on cherik there?
Despite the show throwing us into a different ship (one that I refuse to mention, we all know what I mean), there are so many cherik moments that I will talk about.
Charles pretty much haunts the entirety of the narrative right up to the point we get to see him in episode 6 (I think).
Long post of Cherik moments incoming.
Obviously, I will start with the fact that Erik was the one Charles left everything to. He knew Erik would take on his legacy, his X-Men and his dream, so he left everything to his old friend.
"Back when we were friends, I would always sense Charles in my mind. Not invading, more a presence. I was in his thoughts and he in mine. When we parted ways, I told myself I needed this (the helmet) to protect myself from his psychic powers."
"But you were worried if you still felt how much he loved you, you wouldn't be able to go through with your crusades."
In this conversation, Erik even states that he fully intends to honor Charles' last wish, even if the X-Men do not trust him.
No matter what you think, it's canon that Erik wears the helmet to block out Charles' love.
Another proof of Erik's feelings towards Charles is included in his perfectly crafted and so powerful speech.
"There was a time I would smite you all for what was done to Storm. But today, I have saved you from your own, for an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of Earth. How was it is, versus how small we make it. Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream, and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own..."
From this monologue, my favorite part is the one where he remembers how Charles challenged him to view the world from this perspective.
I must again state just how perfect Magneto's speech in this scene is. I've rewatched it so many times over the past weeks that I could probably quote it word for word now. Such a powerful speech.
"We were at a bar in Germany when he first mentioned his dream. I laughed at him. Was he sentimental or suicidal? Both earn an early grave. He did that smile of his, that annoying secret smile. "Magneto, any dream worth having is a dream worth dying for." We thought we'd perish before seeing the day when humanity accepted our people. Like Moses and the Promised Land, we would carry the dream, but never live it."
Erik's voice and expressions during every single scene mentioning Charles just point out how much he misses him. I don't even have more words for this scene. But there you all have the picture of the "annoying secret smile" (that Erik very much loves)
Now to my favorite. In this episode, it is Erik (and the X-Men) haunting Charles' narrative.
This scene happens shortly after Charles was told that he would have to let Lilandra erase his memories of Earth and the X-Men. Charles is standing in front of these statues, considering his options, but obviously unwilling to lose memories of his X-Men (and Erik, obviously).
Right after it is explained that the statues are actually the gods of the Imperium. Who used to hate each other and be at war, but eventually married to set balance and peace in the Imperium. And isn't that scenario familiar? Two people on opposite sides, but still in love (the statue is very much full of affection and gentle touches).
"Idealism is also a sign of insanity." "You know, I have a very old and very dear friend on Earth who would agree with you." "Wise, for a Terran." "Yes. His name is Magnus. And I wish to remember him." "You've made your decision, then?" "Forgive me."
And this conversation is also so amazing. It becomes quite obvious that Charles never truly wanted to lose his memories of Erik and the X-Men.
Also this episode was sometimes very much making me mad. When they said Charles is not "pure" terran, etc. Also the things about the mindwipe overall...
And then obviously, the whole lenght of episode 10. But there IS a particular scene I need to highlight the most.
"The X-Men and I may not resemble each other, but we are still family."
"We... had a dream. Charles."
"Yes. A dream that made us a family. And like that dream, any family worth having..."
"Is worth fighting for. Your name is Professor Charles Xavier."
"And you are Erik Magnus Lehnsherr. But the man you wished to glimpse as a child, who you were meant to be, who your family needs today, chose another name. Do you remember him, Magnus? Remember what he was meant to do?"
"Magneto lives!"
That's all from me for this post, thank you sm for the ask! :)
I love watching Paul's face light up when he sees John. I also can't get over Paul immediately offering up his sunglasses and John just handing over his glasses, without question, for Paul to keep for him.
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