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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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Wandering Thinker Sep 30, 2025

@bart @don_atoms @fdroidorg @marcprux @gryzor
Clowns are those who continue to use Android, despite all the crap stuffed into it, and believe that life without a smartphone is impossible.
Are you talking about "millions of people"? Well, that just confirms the fallacy of the theory that "millions of flies can't be wrong."

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θΔ ⋐ & ∞Sep 30, 2025

@[email protected] @fdroidorg @bart @don_atoms @gryzor @marcprux

and believe that life without a smartphone is impossible.i wish it weren't but you have no idea how many services expect that you have a working smartphone with a mainstream os, only outlook or gmail, etc

i do not want to have a "smartphone" at all and yet i'm forced to because that's how it's expected to be

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Martin Marconcini Sep 30, 2025

@tauon @fdroidorg @bart @wthinker @don_atoms @marcprux it's not possible to live without a smartphone in modern western Europe or the US of A.

Plain and simple. Unless you have a lot of money in cash (and even then, you'd need to go under the table for a lot of things).

Or if you are super privileged and someone else does and pays everything for you.

It's sad. But true.

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Raptor

@gryzor @tauon @fdroidorg @bart @wthinker @don_atoms @marcprux one of the most annoying ones are parking meters in the city, as annoying as coins are to carry it's not even an option anymore, the newer ones are pure digital and operated by NFC and app so if I have to go downtown for any reason I literally can't park without an android app. That and two factor ident, everyone got rid of their SMS option and requires an app now....