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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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PureTryOut Sep 30, 2025

@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg It would help if you'd stop calling it "sideloading" and just used the normal term "installing".
Also, stop using Android. The only real option is moving away, use #MobileLinux.

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Martin Marconcini Sep 30, 2025

@bart @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg you cannot expect billions of devices to "stop using Android", don't be a clown.

Also what do you expect billions of users to do? Install Linux on their phones? And then what? You can't even make phone calls.

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PureTryOut Oct 1, 2025

@gryzor @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg Calling people you don't agree with a clown, now that's productive.

Honestly, why the hate? You're free to not use it, but you could be happy that some people are at least trying to break the duopoly. Also, calling does work for a bunch of devices. Sure, not for all of them, but it's getting there.

Let's work together on a better world rather than just negativity on people actively trying to improve things.

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zaire arcana

@bart @gryzor @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg the unfortunate thing is, on a lot of devices you literally can’t install another OS without risking a brick or an unusuable experience, or just at all; this is through no fault of mobile linux developers, just that unfortunately mobile OEMs have a history of proprietary-centrism and generally hostility towards those efforts