Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by platevoltage on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:01PM
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Yes. You gotta pay your 100 bucks, but I don't remember feeling like my privacy was being invaded when getting a developer account. I assume the best reason they have for this is that they can nuke the account, effectively killing the install base of an app is reported to be malicious. Unless someone tells me why I should, I don't have a huge issue with this.
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by iggldiggl on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:24PM
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> I assume the best reason they have for this is that they can nuke the account, effectively killing the install base of an app is reported to be malicious.
They can already target malicious apps via Play Protect, including presumably all apps signed by the same signing key, so from that point of view no change would be needed. What this is presumably supposed to achieve is rather making it harder to rotate your signing key after it has been burnt…