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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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Bryan Haskin Sep 29, 2025

@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg the best thing you can do is stop using android. There are alternatives out there. They might not be as good as android currently, but android wasn't that great when it first came out either.

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GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞(on hiatus)Sep 29, 2025

@bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux @[email protected] Such as?

Part of the issue is that suggesting ppl "stop using Android" is like suggesting they stop using a car:

For some people it's doable with only a moderate amount of difficulty, when their circumstances happen to align with the available alternatives.

For many other people it's fundamentally impossible, as the demands of their circumstances have no alternatives.

Imo it's disingenuous to suggest that boycotting Android would be any different.

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DieMadColonizer Sep 30, 2025

@GoodNewsGreyShoes @bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux

The people need guides, and not just tech guides but lifestyle guides with 1:1 replacements etc.

It was hard to quit Android and I'm still degoogling and I work in tech.

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GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞(on hiatus)Sep 30, 2025

@NoFlexZone @bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux Fully agree.👍

Greatly appreciate your distinction between "tech guide" & "lifestyle guide", as well - reminds me of the countless 'answers' on StackOverflow that amount to "read the manual".🫠

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DieMadColonizer

@GoodNewsGreyShoes @bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux

I think we have an example of how with those damn recipe sites that have a story and the damn recipe half way down the page.

With a Skip button this could actually work for tech instructions.

Present a relatable use case, then instructions with "the screen will look like this", "put this in x field it does this for you" type sht