Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid - Reddthat

Lemmy

What pisses me off it that they say they do this for security. It changes absolutely anything.

They really think that malware developers will say “oh no! I need to submit a picture of an id card to sign my malware! It’s literally impossible to submit a jpg of a stolen id card, I’m ruined and out of a job!”

What does it change? Waste 20 minutes of some malware developer while they register under a stolen id? They already have a system that scans for known malware and automatically remove it.

They really think that malware developers will say “oh no! I need to submit a picture of an id card to sign my malware! It’s literally impossible to submit a jpg of a stolen id card, I’m ruined and out of a job!”

Which is irrelevant. They can block any malware - now impossible to do with sideloading of apps during pop-ups.