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"""
Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
"""

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FuckGoogle #KeepAndroidOpen

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

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Reid

20h ago

@alice the requirement to upload the private key is particularly sketchy because what other reason is there than to distribute tampered APKs, probably for the purpose of "law enforcement" that will 1000% be done only with a warrant

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Li ~ Crystal System

@reiddragon @alice thats not typically what evidence of the private key means .. however uploading private keys to google has been a thing on google play for awhile .. they have this whole 'google enchanced security' thing where you just give them your keys and that improves security somehow iirc..

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Reid

4h ago

@Li @alice again, though, read Google's own site and that one never mentions proof of anything. The vague concept of proof of private keys is NOT what Google is saying, it's an interpretation of what google said because they made everything so vague there's no functional difference between Google's posts on the topic and a David Lynch movie: everyone kinda just understands something different and none of it is wrong because the original text technically didn't actually say anything concrete.