Google blacklisting rooted devices from Android Ma->
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Blymie
Blymie writes "For more than 2 months now, Google has been having issues with their Android Market. Users have had apps disappearing from the 'My Apps' section of the Market app, many being presented with a blank screen.
This makes it extremely difficult to manually update apps, and it appears that for some users auto-update functionality is broken as well... which is a possible security risk.
The astonishing part is that not only has Google dragged their feet on this simple problem for the last 2 months, but that they are also starting to label the issue as a 'root' issue. That is, if you've rooted your phone, ever — even if you revert back to stock — your once rooted device is now invisibly 'tainted'.
The only possible conclusion is that Google may be blacklisting rooted device IMEIs... as there is no other way a device reverted to stock could be the source of a mysterious "rooted device" issue.
This is astonishing, and clearly an outright attack on rooted devices. There is absolutely no way, what so ever, that a rooted device once reverted to stock could somehow 'break' the Market app.
Is the start of Google attacking and trying to destroy the rooted device community?"
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This makes it extremely difficult to manually update apps, and it appears that for some users auto-update functionality is broken as well... which is a possible security risk.
The astonishing part is that not only has Google dragged their feet on this simple problem for the last 2 months, but that they are also starting to label the issue as a 'root' issue. That is, if you've rooted your phone, ever — even if you revert back to stock — your once rooted device is now invisibly 'tainted'.
The only possible conclusion is that Google may be blacklisting rooted device IMEIs... as there is no other way a device reverted to stock could be the source of a mysterious "rooted device" issue.
This is astonishing, and clearly an outright attack on rooted devices. There is absolutely no way, what so ever, that a rooted device once reverted to stock could somehow 'break' the Market app.
Is the start of Google attacking and trying to destroy the rooted device community?"
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