The API behaves this way:

> To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default age ranges the API returns are 0-12, 13-15, 16-17, and 18+, but you can receive custom age ranges.

https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-signals/use-ag...

But I don't find it any better. I don't see any viable reason to provide identification to my phone's OS. If a parent buys a phone for their child, they can already set up parental controls before handing it over.

I wish Motorola all the best with their GrapheneOS partnership.

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inigyou 12 hours ago | parent [-]

You can also get GrapheneOS right now on Google-branded hardware, which is expensive but not enshittified.

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dmantis 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

True. Though I have mixed feelings buying new pixel from Google after all these actions.

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theandrewbailey 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Then buy a used or open box one. There's plenty of people who try switching to Android and buy Pixels, but go back to their iPhones in a week.

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inigyou 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't. When they start making shit hardware, stop buying their hardware. As long as it's good, buy it. That's a free market price signal.

	▲	r_lee 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think there's enough GrapheneOS users to make a 'free market price signal' here

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gruez 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>which is expensive

The rumored Motorola devices are even more expensive. It's the signature and some foldables, all in the 1000+ MSRP range. At least with pixels you can get the a series for as little as 400 on sale.

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superloika 11 hours ago | parent [-]

If you buy one of the Motorola Grapheneos phones, you're gonna be marked. You will stand out in the crowd. It has happened before and will happen more frequently as the world becomes more authoritarian.

	▲	iamnothere 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh but “the government already knows everything” as all the other privacy doomers like to say. “They” can probably already predict what phone you’re going to buy and what you’re going to eat for lunch, right? So why worry about this?
	▲	dmantis 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		On the other hand, privacy becomes a luxury. People love signaling their status and standing out from the crowd. Entire car and clothing brands exist solely because of that. And if enough people stand out, it doesn't matter anymore.
	▲	inigyou 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, people can tell a phone is running Graphene. They just can't get in.

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goda90 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LineageOS is still a thing too.