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f-droid has my condolences (media.piefed.ca)

submitted 11 hours ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 38 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The dumb part is that this won't even solve the problem. It will be trivially easy to get dev certificates through a shell company. Anyone who is making money off scamware will have no trouble standing up LLCs faster than Google can ban them.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

What does Google care? They're making money off of it now.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 31 points 6 hours ago

You still think it's about security while it always has been about control.