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Older Android phones won’t support many secure websites by September 2021 – Engadget
Let’s Encrypt has warned that older Android phones won’t support many secure websites after they lose key certificates by September 2021.
It’s entirely common for developers to drop support for older operating systems. However, this could be a sore point given Android update policies. Let’s Encrypt noted that about 33.8 percent of Android users on Google Play run a version older than 7.1, and some hardware vendors cut off support early. It wasn’t uncommon for Android vendors to offer relatively few updates in previous years, and some devices (typically budget phones) would even be stuck with their shipping OS. You may have bought…
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