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Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why)
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Is there any partition in the E U to stop Google from implementing their developer verification system?
Like Stop Killing Games?
Telling people to file DMA complaints may be a start, ostensibly it was passed to prevent monopolists from locking things down like this, a stick that has already been used on Apple with some success: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en
Done
Done
When will this game of endless ping pong with big tech overreaching human rights end
As soon as big tech ends, no sooner.
It's the very nature of power. I don't understand why people are still surprised by this stuff.
The EU hasn't even been able to stop Apple, who's been doing this for 20 years.
And yet the EU did force Apple to goddamn finally use USB-C in their phones. It wasn't out of their own goodwill.
And to allow installing non-market apps. Apple wasn't happy about that in the slightest.
And implemented it in the shittiest way possible
And got away with it, which probably assured Google that they can do something similar (though coming from the opposite direction) without upsetting the EU...
Rumor has it that sideloading will still be possible using ADB, that is the shittiest way possibile
Ehh Apple is till wining on that one.
There probably will be an exception for the EU. I imagine.
Unfortunately, I think this plays into the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and the developer verification is how Google is trying to comply with it...
Source: https://www.mobisec.com/en/regulatory-compliance/cyber-resilience-act-dispositivi-applicazioni-mobile/
It'd make sense for Google to require this for Play Store apps, which they distribute, but not all apps.
But why would they matter to Google they where not selling those apps. Are computer manufactures going to be blamed for stuff installed on a computer.
It says distributors and importers. That's what Google is via the Play Store. Still no reason I can see the disallow side loading, but Google's lawyers, or the EU's, may see it differently.
Iiinteresting.