Google is silently blocking RCS on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (Update)
www.androidauthority.com
Google famously campaigned for Apple to "get the message" and use RCS, but now doesn't let rooted Android users use RCS.

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.
  • vikingqueef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

    google gonna google.

    remember when they used to have “don’t be evil” in their company mission statement? i miss that google

    • bastion@feddit.nlEnglish
      13·
      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…

      <uncomfortable silence>

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

      • vikingqueef@lemmy.worldEnglish
        45·
        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.worksEnglish
          17·
          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.worldEnglish
            1·
            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.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      I remember rooting for their upstart little browser and being excited getting an invite to gmail, and thinking their OS was a cool alternative to the big mega-maniacal Apple stuff…

      …now I just feel like my younger self had been taken for such a fool.