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gofoss Sep 29, 2025

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

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Plumeros ☮️Sep 30, 2025

@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg
Does this affect de-googled OSes like #lineageos and its derivates?

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Ati

@plumeros @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg Yes, exactly, I can't see how it might affect degoogled AOSP based phones directly Indirectly I understand it narrows potential user base for developers With only Play Store apps available on Google phones, FOSS devs are only left with F-Droid. And F-Droid base narrows to people using degoogled AOSP forks right? Then what? Can Google "close" AOSP and still use Linux kernel for multi billion profit in their Android?