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  "path": "/t/google-will-require-developer-verification-to-install-android-apps-including-sideloading/33123?page=26#post_537",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T06:50:41.000Z",
  "site": "https://forum.f-droid.org",
  "tags": [
    "collect personal data about people, with or without our knowledge or consent.",
    "Document Foundation with their LibreOffice fork",
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    "Linux-libre"
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  "textContent": "phw:\n\n> I’m convinced we will see this being applied to other apps.\n\nIt is a known fact that it will apply all app developers, not just those suspected of injecting malware into their apps. Besides, handwaving at malware as an excuse is clearly reputation laundering, because Goggle themselves are well known for injecting malware into absolutely anything they can get their filthy mitts on. To collect personal data about people, with or without our knowledge or consent. If the Android/Linux developer registration program was about reducing malware, it would be a classic case of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.\n\nIt really is time to liberate the Android/Linux from Goggle’s control, as OpenOffice was liberated from Oracle’s control by the Document Foundation with their LibreOffice fork. What would be required to get the /e/ Foundation, for example, into a position to hard fork Android on top of a standard Linux kernel (or even better Linux-libre), for use by device vendors and mobile developers?",
  "title": "Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading"
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