Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
if you still believe this is about protecting kids then you are too far gone at this point
also how does this work for linux, you might be able to pressure canonical into doing it for ubuntu but there's so many other distros out there. this would be easily enforceable on windows/macos but absolutely not linux