Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
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Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/24787719

Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    33·
    3 days ago

    Wish we lived in a world where open source was funded even at a single percentage of what this oligopoly pulls in each year. We’d have a viable alternative to the duopoly by now.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      5·
      2 days ago

      Baby steps: I wish it was mandated that any software receiving even a penny in public funding must be open source down to the last byte.