F-Droid Calls Google’s New Developer ID Rule ‘Malware,’ Warns of Threat to Open-Source Apps
The open-source app store F-Droid contends Google's Android Developer Verification program is a bid to control the ecosystem, not a security measure, threatening projects that rely on anonymous or…
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