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Google wants to make Android suck

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2026-07-13 05:26:15 in Tech
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
https://keepandroidopen.org/

TL;DR - Google wants to demand money and government IDs and a contract from third-party app developers, or else their apps won't work on most Android devices. For "security reasons", they say.

There may or may not be a way for users to circumvent this. Google says there will be, but what they've proposed is more complicated than the current procedure to sideload apps, and it isn't even guaranteed to exist.

Comments

  • StormtroperStormtroper
    The internet has changed, isn't it? It started with Facebook convincing normies to post their daily life occurrences under their real names and now internet de-anonymization is semi-normalized with doing it at a legal level being a serious talking point. Steps like this feel like bricks for building a wall.
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