If Google goes through with the changes to Android,
F-Droid will end for all stock android users, and their app store/repos be only for the Degoogled OS folks.
Their blog discusses:
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
This change will almost certainly cause a substantial increase in user count for GrapheneOS and other FOSS Android forks. As they squeeze, note and more get pushed out.
I hope you're right
If this come, the only solution will be linux because developers will not be able to create app without KYC
Android studio will require a KYC
Well this is why we started hydraveil as a linux app, and people should not live 100% of their lives on their phone. Yes phones are needed, but not literally everything you do, with these apps from play store to function
“Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme in order to publish and distribute their works is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority in order to be able to distribute their creative works.”
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