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A comment on Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution. Parent comment

Re:Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration... by jhasse on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:00PM (#47144641)
Only require Developer Registration for apps with READ_SMS then.
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Re:Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration... by UncleMeat on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:16PM (#47145508)
There are about a half dozen permissions that are regularly abused by malware. These permissions are also extremely useful for a ton of completely legitimate features.

I am pretty confident that if Google had enabled this policy only for apps which use these permissions that the community would still be upset.

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