Google can do this for own their own store first. I doubt it will make any difference in the number of malicious and shit apps on that store. Requiring this be mandatory for everyone is clearly malicious.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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I feel like you don't really know anything about the scam community, but a side loaded app is like 500 times more likely to be malware than a Play store app. The amount of millions that have been stolen from users in India, Mexico, Africa, and Brazil because of sideloaded apps is pretty staggering.
I'm fairly certain fdroid should just be able to alter the way that they're doing things a bit and still exist under the need to obtain a signing cert from Google.
I mean personally I'm not on the same side with this. I would rather Google not do this without some way to disable it via the UI given enough warnings and what not.
The USA with its corporations setting a new, unbeatable WR in any% glitchless turning into a dictatorship with zero human rights or freedoms.
wellp. time to go back to a time where phones were phones and not much more. i don't need a smart phone, i barely wanted one to begin with. i just want a way to talk to people, send sms with a T9 keyboard, listen to preloaded MP3s and maybe play snake.
Nokias are back, maybe see if you can get one where you are