They went as far here in Ukraine as making some services exclusive to those who have the app. The official government app for digital documents and services, Diia, also has stupid integrity check, which makes it unable to be installed from Aurora Store, which makes me cut out from such services, because I don’t have Google Services installed. By the way, there are Google trackers in the app.

Most of the cost from not moving from requiring phone to be connected to people’s accounts and not desiring for the central server to federate with others.

Sir, this is Jerboa community