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  "path": "/t/google-will-require-developer-verification-to-install-android-apps-including-sideloading/33123?page=28#post_571",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T23:40:32.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I haven’t been on the Forum as much due to my sheer hatred of the staff (It beckons the issues in FurAffinity in 2025, they really need to stop censoring the truth, or justice will ultimately prevail, and also stop threatening to ban somebody for telling the truth! Seriously, if this post gets censored, I’ll be ******* done with Discourse due to it being a horrible service, giving staff too much authority, and not allowing Free Speech), but considering the evolution, and the fact that F-Droid itself will never use Shizuku or related ADB circumventions, I’m therefore using a combination of Obtainium & Florid, as they both are able to use Shizuku and thus are able to install applications through that methodology. F-Droid itself unfortunately will fade away as “Advanced Flow” gets forced onto everybody, but the applications that utilize ADB to install applications will continue to thrive, until Age Verification shuts that prospect down too, since that’s still a serious enough issue at the moment, and Android is seriously under threat of being completely locked down, because Age Verification could lock out Developer Options outright unless you verify your Age, which would then kill every application, F-Droid will officially die on stock Androids at that point. We seriously all need to fight Age Verification as well, since a US Federal Age Verification law affecting all Operating Systems is being pushed through the Federal Government without the peoples consent.",
  "title": "Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading"
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