If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store. And if you are a developer, you may have noticed new options for billing and distributing your apps. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/challengers-approach-third-party-app-stores-arrive-google-play
@eff Third party appstores are meaningless if the distributed apps still have to comply to all the terms that Google sets. So far it is just 90 days from now until the rug will be pulled: https://keepandroidopen.org/
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@AstaMcCarthy @eff Isn't that site dead? Its last Mastodon post was in May. I know a non-profit which tried to sign the open letter and was met with no response.
