VLC - App stores were a mistake

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VLC - App stores were a mistake - Lemmy.World

VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

Reminder that VLC is on F-Droid

From their Twitter:

If you wonder why we can’t update the VLC on Android version, it’s because Google refuses to let us update:

  • either we give them our private signing keys,
  • or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can’t get fixes.

It’s not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11…

Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste

Google requiring their private signing key is insane, and goes completely against the concept of private/public keys.

Why is Google asking for this?

See also: NSA PRISM

Member when all the companies listed released a PR statement within 24 hours of each other, all very basic and denied allowing the NSA direct access to their users?

I member.

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Oh yeah, I remember that…