F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat." An estimated 85% of F-Droid apps could face distribution issues because their developers signed through F-Droid, not through Google. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org
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@luka @keepandroidopen What we are experiencing here is beyond words to describe or express the extent of the suffering we are enduring.
Despite everything we are facing, we are still doing everything in our power to save our children and families from the bitter cold and the floods surrounding us.
That is why we need you today more than ever before.
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@luka @keepandroidopen This is an ongoing disagreement going way back. Until google can prove it's protected app ecosystem is an actually viable impediment to malicious intent it wont go any further than just generating more smoke and noise, sound and fury signifying nothing. AGAIN for like, the umpteenth time. Someone will shake and bake googles app store, show how badly compromised X percentage of the store is and everything returns to business as usual.
@luka @keepandroidopen If I've understood https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html right, f-droid on de-googled lineage/graphene would still work, right?
I'm not saying 'users just need to flash their phone hur dur' (if they even can), I get this is appalling, just trying to understand the scope as someone who has spent time and effort this year getting off the google teat.
If existential means their userbase will collapse, I get that. But (when) will it be impossible to even use f-droid in hard mode?
@bbuk @keepandroidopen it's a <0.5% share of dedoogled phones. weird, eh?
@luka @keepandroidopen Really sad. Might seem like each de-googler needs to reach 200 people, but as people turn they can promote it further, plus how much market share would we have to take from G/A before we see /some/ improvements in privacy and equity?
Sadly my particular circumstances mean I'm not with friends for any length of time so I can't offer the support. I'll keep doing what I can though, I'm spreading the word at least. Is there enough overlap with normies or are we split brained?
@luka Time to change the OS. @keepandroidopen
@luka @keepandroidopen This is downright disgusting.
@luka @keepandroidopen maybe installing SuperfreeZ from FDroid and blocking/freezing play services at boot would stop this for people unable to replace the os or mess with adb to degoogle
It would mean certain google things won't work but that's a small price to pay