Is that the beta app or the actual release (unless they finally made it out of beta)? Just asking because there is a massive gap now between their last official release and the full app rewrite which was or is in beta for very long time already. New user may not want to go for the beta version, even though here it makes sense.
You are right but this nothing that the original poster brought up. I totally support moving to Graphene or others if you can, just to be clear. But if you only want to customize the appearance and mess with the search bar, a custom launcher works well enough.
I mean, good on you to go for Graphene, but honestly a lot of stuff you describe is solved with a custom launcher. Search bar and customizability for example. I use KISS launcher on my private phone (Pixel 7) and on my work phone (Pixel 9), no issues with either of these topics.
The one thing I wholeheartedly agree with though is the cancer that is Google Photos and the peddling of backing up stuff.
This is bigger than "just" Revanced though. It is about using any open source software that could replace a Google app and losen Google's grip on your data.
That is actually a relatively mild solution that makes the age verification almost bearable...
...which is terrible, because age verification as a whole is a terrible concept. Would have been nice if a big player like Steam is working against it, but I also never expected they would, they are commercial after all.
I know, I'm on Android and some of these are iPhone apps only. Voyager I don't like too much and I already gave Interstellar a spin, but it was just not as polished as Thunder is to me.
Seems like that is the only way for now, so I'll backup stuff and do it. I've been reading so many opinions how important it even is, I don't think it is going to impact my use case of the laptop.
Reading these "news", yes, let's please gatekeep!