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30/09/2025
In case you haven't heard, Google will soon impose that the developer of every app on your Android device be 'verified' (Googlespeak for: personally identified) before they allow you to run the apps on the device you bought and paid for.
What this means for you
Any modified apps, or FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) apps form independent developers will no longer work if the developers refuse to hand over all their personal data (government ID, address, phone number, etc.) and pay a ransom to Google for the identification process.
Meaning, if you currently have any 'modded' version of any game, or FOSS app you've downloaded from Play Store alternatives like F-Droid, almost all of those will cease to function after this imposition from Google takes effect.
Here is what the largest FOSS app store F-Droid is saying about this:
"If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all."
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"Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme in order to publish and distribute their works is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority in order to be able to distribute their creative works. It is an offense to the core principles of free speech and thought that are central to the workings of democratic societies around the world."
Read: F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
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