Does anyone here actually support Google’s Developer Verification?
I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.
Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?
I should care because? Do they care about me not wanting google shoved in every aspect of my life?
Then just don’t use an android phone, that’s a choice isn’t it???
“Google shouldn’t have restricted Android, that’s their (anti-user) choice, isn’t it???”
The other party shouldn’t be able to unilaterally chance the terms. It is my phone, after all, and I strongly believe I should be able to do whatever I can with the devices I own.
Even then, what other choice for an usable but actually of property of the user phone do you suggest? iPhone?
It’s also extremely convenient for Google, a company lobbying ID laws, to add ID harvesting; or for Google, a company pushing for anti-user behaviour to add anti-user behaviour. If this was about security, they would stop shipping spyware, and take security seriously, something they do not.
Technically, you can always use the library and the post office, so yeah, it’s a choice. I guess.
How about an apple phone?
Or how about that: projects like Linux and Ubuntu phones died because there was no interest in it, because there was Google. And now, everybody wants an alternative.
They are out there, you can use opensource Android forks, you don’t have to use Google
Soon to be locked out from participating in society because of play integrity, digital IDs and age verification. The EU is very likely to use strictly Apple/Google, the very monopolists they “despise”. Don’t give me the “just go to the post office by foot”… I could also “technically” live in a cave, I guess. Man stfu, your bullshit doesn’t stick here.
Ah another myth “the EU App”, I will not go I to detail, but each member state must implement its own app. Yes, the reference implementation uses Google services currently, but there is not a single , working , published app! Not one.