OK. Anonymous publishing of APKs is gone. No sideloading, no Obtainium, unless KYCed. This will fix nothing (there are many people who will gladly KYC for a bottle of vodka), but introduce control into Android, that was pretty open so far.
The minority of GrapheneOS (nprofile…750r) and similar will be still free.
We need to move to PWAs.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html
Juraj
npub1m2…lr8p9
2025-08-28 10:15:49 UTC
Author Public Key
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wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2025-08-28 10:15:49 UTCEvent JSON
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