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An independent app store's take on Google's Developer Verification. https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html '... beware the dangers of allowing the terminology of debate to be defined by those who don’t have your best interests at heart. Malware being synonymous with “software we don’t like” means that they can unilaterally dictate — driven either by business incentives or by being compelled by a sufficiently powerful government — what the malware-du-jour definition is to be. For precedent, personal content filtering in the form of “ad blockers” has long since been banned from the Play Store, and they have even classified some instances as malware. How long before they designate all ad-blocking software as malware, block installation on all Android certified devices worldwide, and permanently designate all developers of this class of software as malware creators? Such a move would certainly be aligned with their commercial incentives as the global ad-tech monopolist, and would be completely in accordance with the language of their ADC Terms and Conditions.'