https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

Don't login into your OS vendor's account. The capabilities and incentives of screwing you are way too high. "There was a contract which you accepted" is less of a working defense when a given contract is mandatory to use your device, rather than as optional as Google, Microsoft or Apple account. Corporations know it and will never screw an unlogged user as much as a logged one (even if they'll try either way).

Obviously you don't need an unlocked bootloader no matter how useful it'd be to unbrick when recovery dies (or a fixed build isn't available yet), to make sure the users won't say it's for nobody as it can't pass Play Integrity

https://developer.android.com/about/canary

https://www.reddit.com/r/NothingTech/comments/1lwqiob/nothing_phone_3a_camera_post_processing_adds_hair/

Usual stock camera experience.

If you find an issue with Nothing Phone 3 just because it's pricey and ugly, you're just a hater.

If you find an issue with Nothing Phone 3 because it's unergonomic, has a generic display, offers upper midrange cameras, entry level high-end SoC, the brand grifts off the "poweruser friendly" image and asks solid money for all of it despite the economies of scale, that's where it's at.

Pic

A phone stopped being usable because server said no :(
https://fixupx.com/developeruwu/status/1945021367939666004

(yes, I'm aware that you can probably bypass that in plentitude of ways, I just hope that activation mechanisms will be abandoned through an OTA whenever the servers stop handling them, but one could dream)

So Google already acknowledges the feasibility of proxying PIA results to/from (a good linguistic question...) vulnerable devices

To run an untouched (just kidding, the toggle in question and GP signing cause your app to be far from "untouched") original app enrolled into this unnecessary restriction, use:
pm disable com.your.app/com.pairip.licensecheck.LicenseContentProvider

https://github.com/pperez39/google-keys/

This repo is either a very high quality fake or Google's own leak of keyboxes they managed to obtain (not from themselves), divided into ones they decided to revoke and ones which they didn't. The details you can see in csv tables don't look like anything a third party would bother to catalogue.

Essentially, could say it's a mix of current state of revocations and a roadmap of future revocations.
It'd be exceptionally odd for any third party to mark the source of compromise in the level of details you can see in the csv, since it wouldn't really matter as long as you have a bunch of valid keyboxes around that would be obtained directly by you with no means of guessing how likely your gray market competitor would be to possess them.

Except using them to pass PIA, what can you do?
Simple: observe for their revocations and see how much longer the major OEM keys will stay unrevoked compared to B brands. What kind of conclusions or actions you'll take later is up to you.

https://github.com/RealJohnGalt/KeyBoxRevocationResearch/blob/master/keybox_check.txt

The tournament is started.

Deutsche Telekom released schizo ads targeted at gen Z that likely won't make them any money. I guess that's good.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=75nQs45HP50

(No, I'm not paid, I saw this ad on Reddit and it felt good to see an ad expected to be net negative for the business)

Fold 7 can't be bootloader unlocked, while running stable OneUI 8. Either they rushed it for the marketing points, making it equivalent to a beta (as other devices are still on beta, where they indeed aren't unlockable at this point in time) or Samsung is about to lose money on the people (including businesses) who'll move to Pixels, Nothing and OnePlus (not an exhaustive list).

The irony.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/utiq-tracking-jetzt-auch-am-internetanschluss-zu-hause/

Still current news: you accept a cookie-like banner and then this gives a company the consent and capability to track you or your household (so with the accuracy of single contract) despite the IP changes because Deutsche Telekom tells them it's still you.