Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
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If I can't find a half-way decent replacement when I have to get a new phone, I'm getting something super basic. Flip or whatever, only for emergency use. Something that's not corrupted by google.
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And that's exactly google intention. All that "security" bullshit is to justify this.
Without something like f-droid google hopes that someone like me who despises them will be forced to use play store.
And I'm sure many of us will bend. But as for me, I'd rather go back to dumb phones if Linux phones don't work. And google board members can stick their security on a pineapple and stick it in their ass.
With a condom of course because i want them to be safe while being fucked, just like they wish for us.
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Google claims that the changes are being introduced to protect users from "bad actors spreading malware and scams,"
Google Store should be closed down too, because it spreads malware and scams too.
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Nearly all malware comes from the play store, given that very few people get apps from elsewhere (percentage-wise).
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Malicious actors will still succeed in registering their apps, so the whole thing is only good for control.
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I can't imagine this to go through everywhere in the world. In example even Apple is forced to allow sideloading in Europe. So why would Android not be forced too, especially because it had it before and is even more widespread than iPhones. I also wonder how many people using an Android phone do actually install applications outside the Google Store? I mean besides pre-installed stores like for Amazon Store or Samsung Store. The sad reality is that most people don't care or use sideloading at all. (Edit: Typo.)
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This is different, by design. Sideloading and alternate app stores are still perfectly fine. It's just that the developer has to give a bunch of personal into to Google in order for their app not to be rejected by the phone itself. Middleman doesn't matter which is where most if the regulations are. Problem is that many open source apps don't have a developer willing to spend the time and money or give up their privacy in order to publish an app they don't make money on. So it's designed to kill off FOSS apps.
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As the F-Droid team signs the (not repoducibly built) apks with their own key, Google would have to allow the key of the F-Droid team then.
Yet, as Google currently does not permit apps in their PlayStore that aren't in line with their business model, e.g. NewPipe, they would then force the F-Droid team to do the same.
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So what app store should one move to, in that case?
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The same applies to all other app stores, there won't be any to move to.
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No? Even if you forget about AOSP, which exists and is great, F-Droid could register as a dev. It seems to be a principled stance they're taking not to.
If you're on AOSP, Google can't affect you this way. You just need a portal to find APKs.
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None. Move out of Android. Their dick move is deeper than just fucking up alternative stores. It's to make sure it's not worthy for anyone to publish outside of play store.
For your safety, of course. Nothing more at all.
Let's invest in Linux options.
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Tech giants are really going all in with the authoritarianism these days.