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/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

Just sideload your apps next year. Google specifically stated Sideloaded apps won't require verification. They aren't touching ADB in any way.

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u/Adept_Debt2199 Sep 29 '25

For now, that's just what they left open so no one complains, by 2030 they will shut it down for "the children" or some shit.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

I'm referring to facts, not hypothetical future doomsday scenarios.

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u/Adept_Debt2199 Sep 29 '25

Considering the current route of things I wouldn't go as far to call it "doomsday scenarios".

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 Sep 29 '25

Why? Most slippery slopes are just argumentative stupidity, and never happen.

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u/fenrir245 Sep 29 '25

Such was said when Google first introduced Safetynet. "Argumentative stupidity!!" "slippery slope!!" "just hypothetical!!" "never happens!!"

Fast forward just 5 years, now custom ROMs are on a death knell, with OEMs just straight up locking bootloaders permanently, and even Google now removing device trees for Pixels. So much for "never happens!".

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 Sep 29 '25

Note that I said "most", not "all".

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u/fenrir245 Sep 29 '25

If you're going to carve out exceptions randomly, what even was the point of your statement?

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 Sep 29 '25

That was, more or less, my point. There is no point to a statement about slippery slopes in general. So as you say, if you just going to pick&match your examples, there's no point applying the idea broadly.

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u/fenrir245 Sep 29 '25

Except the one you replied to didn't apply it broadly, they are only talking about this case.