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...

@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.

@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.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes
Another way to look at it:
"Everybody should just <change their behaviour>..." has never been a viable sution to any problem.

Not because not enough people care (which may also be the case) but because most people don't have the capacity to avoid all the things they "should" be avoiding, do all the things they "should" and still lead a healthy life.

The brain surgeons need to keep brain surgeoning, they can't "just" switch everything to Linux in their spare time. And cook wholesome healthy meals themselves, and fix their devices themselves, and walk to work, and work out, and take more time for their families, and set up their own NextCloud and e-mail servers, and...

@bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux

@Mr_Teatime @bhhaskin @don_atoms @marcprux Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes!!👌

Many thanks: you have good words and used them well!🙏