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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Google's new developer mandate is hitting alternative app stores hard. F-Droid says forced registration, fees, and ID checks could end the open-source project.

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theoretically installing through ADB will still work. but that’s very impractical, and f-droid cannot do that.
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  Droid-ify + Shizuku FTW
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  Theoretically, google could keep that workaround in the code, yes.
  
  Tap for spoiler
  
  Practically it will be gone in 3…2…1…

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