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Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

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400 points ingve | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 05:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sschueller ◴[27 Aug 25 06:01 UTC] No.45035917[source]▶
The requirement of verification to side-load any app is fascist control. It is clear as night and day.

Shame on Google and Apple, it was always clear this was the end goal and next up is also your PC.

Right after will come the removal off apps they don't like and there is nothing you can do about it.

Stallman was right

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mettamage ◴[27 Aug 25 06:21 UTC] No.45036045[source]▶
I asked an LLM, so I think I get it but could you try to mention what is meant with "Stallman was right"? The reason I'm asking you and not posting the LLM answer is because it still feels a bit icky to post an LLM answer for everything I don't understand [1].

[1] Feel free to discuss this too, if you want. I'm developing my opinion on it.

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1. LambdaComplex ◴[27 Aug 25 06:39 UTC] No.45036149[source]▶
Richard Stallman has spent basically his entire career trying to convince people that all software should be free as in freedom, so that people truly control the devices that they own--preventing things like Google being able to lock users out of the ability to install applications on a device that they purchased.

Read up on the principles of the Free Software Foundation if you want all the details.