@loki_the_halbgott

Sadly it does because it will necessitate "#Developer #Verification" for EVERY #apk / #xapk file regardless of source.

• So even @fdroidorg and other #3rdPartyAppStores and even single #Developers wanting to #install their own #Apps (aka. "#Sideloading") will be subject to it because without a #Google-issued #Developer #Certificate, they won't eve able to install their own #App|s on their own devices!

This is worse than #Apple because Apple doesn't mandate #Devs to #selfdox for simply shoving a self-signed App on their #iPhone or #iPad!

• In fact tools like #AltStore automate that process for #iOS!

Without #Regulators like @BNetzA & @EUCommission forcing them into compliance this will only get worse!

• Meanwhile Malicious Actors just use straw people, cuz it'll be trivial for someone posing as a delivery person to quickly copy/scan the ID of some elderly person when claiming they got a delivery for them that'll require age verification (i.e. adult games, porn, alcohol and tobacco), and they'll likely mistake it as something like a gift order by some relative...

@SylvieLorxu OFC it is.

All #GAFAMs follow the #PeterThiel - #Philosophy of working towards #Monopolization.

• #Google can't prevent #3rdPartyAppStores nor legally ban @fdroidorg in particular but they can make using #Fdroid and #AuroraStore and "#Sideloading" as painful and inconvenient as possible, like #Apple does for #iOS and #macOS!

It is not and never was about #malware, because if it was Google would've to kick itself and it's fellow #GAFAM out of #GooglePlay for uploading malicious #InfoStealer|s that nonconsensually collects contact details of 3rd parties without having obtained prior written consent nor letting users know they need to obtain prior written consent from their contacts beforehand!

• #NotLegalAdvice but just because noone has successfully sued someone for submitting their details into Google Contacts doesn't mean this ain't a "#LegalLandmine" that @noybeu et. al. are eager to see someone to step on. And I'm not gonna be that one who's gonna #FuckAroundAndFindOut!