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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TL;DR

Users who have rooted their phone, have their bootloader unlocked or are using some custom ROMs report that their RCS messages are not being sent, even though RCS shows them as connected.
The Google Messages app does not show any error messages when blocking RCS messages of these users and does not send the messages out as SMS or MMS either.
Google famously campaigned for Apple to include RCS messaging in iMessage but is now blocking it for certain Android users.

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[-] bastion@feddit.nl 13 points 4 months ago

I always picture them in a meeting:

Person a: So.. ..looks like in order to get into the Chinese market, we'll have to work with the Chinese government to help them censor certain topics..

Person b: but.. ..our motto.. The optics aren't good on that..

Person c: maybe we don't need a motto.

[-] vikingqueef@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

now they are owned by alphabet too which is funny cause it was founded by the guys that founded google and they just restructured google and all its holdings to be under alphabet.

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure they created alphabet and all the other subsidiaries to escape paying taxes.

See alphabet owns things like the G logo, where they then sell a licence to google at crazy high prices to make Googles profit margins seem smaller than they actually are and because Alphabet use Tax havens (Ireland, Isle of mann, Panama, etc) alphabet pays no taxes on that revenue.

[-] vikingqueef@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yea I wasn't saying it was a good thing for us or the world even. Its funny because of all the things you just mentioned.

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