Last month, “Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google.”

F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html @fdroid

PC Mag: F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores https://www.pcmag.com/news/f-droid-warns-googles-new-rules-could-kill-third-party-android-app-stores @PCMag #Google #Android

  • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    Man, good thing they aren’t a monopoly or anything. Imagine the horror they could unleash

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    21 days ago

    What could go wrong! It’s not like Google is known for arbitrarily deciding to prevent people from doing things with no clear explanation nor way to talk to a human. This will go great!