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Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 week ago by mas@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/24787719

Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

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[–] redti@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fuck you Google no one is gonna buy your bull shit anymore. Fork android!!!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fairphone 6 looks quite interesting and has a Google-free option. People are saying it's a bit buggy but they're fixing the bugs rapidly. And two-day battery life sounds pretty good.

https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

I take anything at this point. Jfc. Google needs to fucking die already.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

fuck google and all, but yes they will. what other mainstream phone is any better? apple? give me a fucking break.

android without gapps will be a niche for the foreseeable future, and niches get ever easier to kill. with the play integrity thing and banking apps, i don't see linux phones getting real traction either as much as i'd like it to.

[–] redti@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah the real problem is somewhere else this just symptomatic of the capitalist mode of production and classes society. But no one want to talk about it! So we are getting fuck in the ass by those who possess the means of production and the product of our labour, understood? Alienation big time. The brave new world.