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Does anyone here actually support Google's Developer Verification?
I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.
Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?
I should care because? Do they care about me not wanting google shoved in every aspect of my life?
Then just don't use an android phone, that's a choice isn't it????
"Google shouldn't have restricted Android, that's their (anti-user) choice, isn't it????"
The other party shouldn't be able to unilaterally chance the terms. It is my phone, after all, and I strongly believe I should be able to do whatever I can with the devices I own.
Even then, what other choice for an usable but actually of property of the user phone do you suggest? iPhone?
It's also extremely convenient for Google, a company lobbying ID laws, to add ID harvesting; or for Google, a company pushing for anti-user behaviour to add anti-user behaviour. If this was about security, they would stop shipping spyware, and take security seriously, something they do not.
Technically, you can always use the library and the post office, so yeah, it's a choice. I guess.
How about an apple phone?
Or how about that: projects like Linux and Ubuntu phones died because there was no interest in it, because there was Google. And now, everybody wants an alternative.
They are out there, you can use opensource Android forks, you don't have to use Google
Soon to be locked out from participating in society because of play integrity, digital IDs and age verification. The EU is very likely to use strictly Apple/Google, the very monopolists they "despise". Don't give me the "just go to the post office by foot".. I could also "technically" live in a cave, I guess. Man stfu, your bullshit doesn't stick here.
Ah another myth "the EU App", I will not go I to detail, but each member state must implement its own app. Yes, the reference implementation uses Google services currently, but there is not a single , working , published app! Not one.
So I'll be back at the end of the year, be proven right and you got your pay and your karma anyway.
Proven right with what? To be clear; I can not see in the future and if member states copy the EU implementation 1:1, then at least we can fight against it in that level. Because, an implementation relying ok US Google would violate multiple European regulations.
But as it seems, misinformation and propaganda won, facts are now subjective and we just give up and bow to big corpo, because those shit hats profit from exactly this kind of bullshit.
Member states are null, they can develop their reskins.
They're already developing with google/apple. What more do you need to know... They shouldn't even be developing anything, but now the point is about trying hard so they rise to "sanctity" and give us an alternative.
There's no propaganda, the propaganda is theirs using children yet again as customary. Serious people merely read the room, because when they resort to games to try repeatedly pass obvious mass surveillance, that tells us what they're coming for. It's obvious.
I use the German digital id since years. Without enforced Google.
Because the German (older) app does not depend on it.
So no, that's not true. It is an assumption and pessimism