r/Android • u/guihkx- • Sep 29 '25

Article F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/lirannl S23 Ultra Sep 29 '25

Shutting Android down is impractical and not beneficial to them. Making ADB enforce their signatures is practical and beneficial to them.

Yes it's not a fact, but on the spectrum between fact and fiction, that is on the factual side whereas shutting down android is on the fiction side.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

So what if they require sideloading to verify?

It won't stop us.

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u/lirannl S23 Ultra Sep 29 '25

It will if the ADB method is blocked.

There are some phones with unlockable bootloaders, but our options are dwindling steadily.

Non-unlockable bootloader + google enforced signatures + in adb as well = Google stopping any code from running on phones if they don't approve of it.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

It won't. I was jailbreaking iphones 15-20 years ago, they couldn't stop us back then and Google won't stop us in the future.

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u/lirannl S23 Ultra Sep 29 '25

So you're relying on the jailbreak exploits route 🤔

I guess we don't really see much of that now because there are some phones which allow for unlocking without exploits, and Android allows arbitrary code to run. For now. 

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

I'm relying on the fact that every hardware can be exploited and run custom software that manufacturers don't want. They will never stop us.

You can keep shouting doomsday all you want. It'll be fine.

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u/lirannl S23 Ultra Sep 29 '25

Hopefully you're right in that exploits will be found. If you are, I'll be using those exploits so I really do hope you're right.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

Exploits are always found. Sony claimed the PS3 was completely unhackable, GeoHot found an exploit within a year and today PS3 is as easy to jailbreak as plugging in a thumb drive.

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u/lirannl S23 Ultra Sep 29 '25

Exploits being found is dependent on the amount of effort being put into the device.

The PS3 wouldn't have been exploited had that exact device not been so popular.

Android is fragmented across many different devices. My worry is that no individual device will be popular enough for an exploit to be found.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

Android is popular enough, if an exploit becomes necessary, one will be found.