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A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification

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194 points sleirsgoevy | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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asimops ◴[31 Oct 25 21:30 UTC] No.45776925[source]▶
While it is technically feasible, it is not a good idea to try and find a technical solution to a people/organisation problem.

Do not accept the premise of assholes.

I hope we can get the EU to fund a truly open Android Fork. Maybe under some organisation similar to NL Labs.

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Furthermore, the need for a trustworthy binary to be auditable to a certain hash or something would make banning this a simple task if Google would want to go that route.

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singpolyma3 ◴[01 Nov 25 00:35 UTC] No.45778228[source]▶
What's wrong with lineage?
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1. numpad0 ◴[01 Nov 25 13:04 UTC] No.45781332[source]▶
Active installs of LineageOS[1] as reported on official tracker is 4.3m instances right now. An MAU of 5m is like, less than Bluesky, Switch 2 shipped so far, most F2P phones games you've heard of, etc. The leverages it has is that of a game.

1: https://stats.lineageos.org/