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Re:Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration... by pas on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @03:49PM (#47142787)
the open source community should ask for their own install key and that's it

Play store can be fast and verification based and the F/OSS stores can be slower, reputation and review based.

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But fundamentally the easiest thing is to ask people to pay to unlock the phone's security barriers, this makes it harder and costlier for scammers.

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Re:Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration... by hellojesus on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:30AM (#47153785)
Why would I want to be beholden to any authority to run software on a device I own?
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