F-Droid warns that the project will end if Google allows you to control the control of the entire Android software ecosystem in the framework of its developers checking program. In addition to collecting personal information from DEVS, F-Droid says that Google will require registration fees from independent developers, many of which give their applications for free and will not be interested in paying Google for privileges.
The Google application for verification asks if you can pay in US dollars, suggesting that it will charge a fee for the privilege of creating Android applications.
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Google was in no hurry to provide detailed information about the verification system. However, you can subscribe to the early access program. During this process Google does Ask if you can pay registration fees in US dollars, which suggests that the program will have costs for developers. We turned to Google to receive additional information.
Call for regulation
F-Droid position is clear: if you have a device, you should decide which software will work on it. According to F-Droid, to register in the central government, this is an insult to the ideas of freedom of speech and thinking.
So what is the solution? The Google blog has been accused of using security as a mask in fact that it is actually an attempt to consolidate monopoly power over the distribution of applications at a time when its power is suppressed by antimonopoly actions. F-Droid calls for regulators from the USA and the EU to look carefully at Google plans, it has not yet been too late.
Google is currently on the verge of mass changes associated with the court in the Play store. After the loss of the antimonopoly case caused by Epic Games, Google also Lost an appealThe field as he explores further legal maneuvering, the company may have to start Opening of the application distribution system Providing third -party shops in Google Play and reflecting the Google Play Content on other windows. This will reduce Google's monopoly power in Android applications, which is the intention of the court. Nevertheless, the new goal of the company is to block side loading can maintain its central role in Android software.
F-Droid calls on interested developers and users to contact representatives of their governments in order to demand actions. In particular, the site proposes to refer to the law on digital markets in the European Commission (DMA) to keep Foss applications for free from the gatekeeper Google.
While the pilot checking the program will be launched the next month, it will take almost a year before incomplete applications are blocked. This will begin with several markets, including Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. It is expected that restrictions will expand all over the world in 2027.
