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Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

2145 sats \ 17 comments \ @bounty_hunter 26 Aug devs

Initially, Google will allow interested developers to sign up for early access starting in October 2025 to test the system and provide feedback. In March 2026, verification will go live for all developers. By September 2026, any app installed on an Android device in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand will have to meet the new requirements. Starting in 2027, the requirements will begin rolling out globally.

This seems bad?

The commentary on Hacker News makes me happy though

Malware is the excuse. Control is the goal. Extracting as much money from people while providing less actual value.

There seems to be mostly outrage there as well.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 26 Aug

876 comments in the discussion on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

40 sats \ 9 replies \ @BlokchainB 26 Aug

No more PWAs?

65 sats \ 4 replies \ @bounty_hunter OP 26 Aug

That's a good point. But even so...

If I recall correctly, other than now defunct Mutiny wallet, there's no lightning wallets PWA's?

And I think their devs stated it was a really difficult problem to build a mobile lightning wallet without the native app features.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 26 Aug

https://my.shockwallet.app

Connects over nostr to a remote node to obviate the otherwise complex networking and actually be useful for receiving

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 26 Aug

Coinos and Blitz Wallet can be installed as PWAs

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 26 Aug

You maybe interested in this #1194605

58 sats \ 0 replies \ @bounty_hunter OP 27 Aug

This is the perfect resource. Thank you.

49 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 26 Aug

It's not just PWAs, right, it's the APKs as well?

That really sucks. Spike in Graphene adoption

85 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingecko 26 Aug

Definitely will make me use graphene

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Artilektt 26 Aug

"Plus using GrapheneOS is less of an option every day, since banks and other 'regulated' sectors use Google Play Protect and similar DRMs to prevent you from connecting from whatever device you want."

Comment from user arielcostas

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 26 Aug

I don't think this affects PWAs

But this will affect zapstore

62 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 26 Aug

They're really building a prison, to protect the kids ofc

1008 sats \ 1 reply \ @bounty_hunter OP 26 Aug

This is an automatic kill switch to ever hit mass adoption for MoE.

Change my Mind.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 26 Aug

Nobody except The Devils Advocate could even try.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 27 Aug

If humanity loses the general purpose computing devices on which you can run software without permission, they will try next to force the chip implant on you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 26 Aug

On macOS this has existed for a long time. When a developer is unknown (=Apple Inc has not signed the devs pubkeys) then users still have the possibility to bypass it and install anyway