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

submitted 2 days 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 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.