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Does anyone here actually support Google's Developer Verification?

I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.

Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?

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[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

so your family's devices get their apps from outside the play store?

people are effectivly prevented from sideloading. not "just a little more complicated"

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago

of course nana uses adb exclusively to install apps on her smartphone, after all this is a totally real story about user protection right?