Google's new developer mandate is hitting alternative app stores hard. F-Droid says forced registration, fees, and ID checks could end the open-source project.
If it’s like the play store verification, it’s quite simple. The main problem is that once “verified”, Google publicly doxxes individual devs by publishing their residential address + private phone number + private Gmail on their dev page, and this is unacceptable for anyone except who used stolen identities
I don’t think it’s going to be as simple to verify as uploading a pic of an id
If it’s like the play store verification, it’s quite simple. The main problem is that once “verified”, Google publicly doxxes individual devs by publishing their residential address + private phone number + private Gmail on their dev page, and this is unacceptable for anyone except who used stolen identities