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An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

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Show threadMichael1d ago

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What would this mean for android branches like /e/os or GrapheneOS?

Also, would this even be possible to implement in the EU? The controls on what apple and google can do is much stronger there.

Show threadArchiveScribe1d ago
@keepandroidopen @gnome It's an absolute shame that this is what the internet has come to—closed. Everything. Even in open source, but in the for-profit world it's always a concern that anything open in a place that answers to stockholders will inevitably want to enclose it to control its product.
Show threadIzzy10h ago

@archivescribe @keepandroidopen @gnome They do it already with websites. A file they don't like? Your website gets flagged as "malicious" on all browsers using Google Safebrowsing. Why is the file malicious? Because they say so. What do other scanners say? It's clean. What does their own scanner say? It's clean. Huh?!? https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#google-safebrowsing

Funnily, for us it's _always_ an APK file. The same that's on Github, but does never get flagged there.

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