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This is actually BS. I'm running GrapheneOS which is significantly more secure than any other flavor of Android.

Unless Niantic is hoping to bleed off it's Ingress player base even further it's a tremendously bad move to try to get people who want to run security and privacy focused forks of android to move back to a version of Android that gives unreasonable root access to google. I already need to enable the google fast location server access to play this game on GrapheneOS which is a decent anti-cheat technique since the location is improved using cell tower IP's, but it comes at the trade off of privacy, which I'm willing to make to play ingress.

I've had to resort to hot spotting my Pixel 7pro, and playing ingress on my old arguably insecure Note 9 with a cracked screen.

Come on Niantic are you trying to **** Ingress? Also why is the word that starts with k - and ends will ill get censored when referring to deliberately retiring Ingress. That word has MANY contexts that are not a call to action, and shouldn't be censored.