Post #2615700

2025-08-26 18:12 UTC

@denzilferreira@techhub.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social it's still opening a door to censor whomever they decide is not an approved developer for whatever reason. It's still not justifiable to completely lock out users to do what they want with their devices.

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@denzilferreira@techhub.social 2025-08-26 18:37

@jumianr@mstdn.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social I understand this. But we are a minority who want to tinker. For Google, the priority is to protect the large majority of Android users from installing apps that are not legitimately packaged by developers who did publish their app on the Play Store. Developers will be able to install their own apps on their devices if developer mode is enabled and via ADB. And a user will be able to adb install an app if compiled with debug keys. The thing here are release keys, which need to match the play store version of legit apps. This also attempts to prevent repackaging of apps with malware. This is the same on Apple devices. I think people are overreacting to be honest. EU also dictated alternative play stores are possible and pretty sure Google will not be able to enforce Play Store only verified apps to install.

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