For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.
Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.
Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg It would help if you'd stop calling it "sideloading" and just used the normal term "installing".
Also, stop using Android. The only real option is moving away, use #MobileLinux.
@bart @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg you cannot expect billions of devices to "stop using Android", don't be a clown.
Also what do you expect billions of users to do? Install Linux on their phones? And then what? You can't even make phone calls.
@gryzor @bart @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg Weird, somehow I've been successfully making and receiving phone calls with GNU/Linux on various devices for the last 17 years... 🤔
