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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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[–] jksalcedo@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think you still need to register/verify since it will require a valid ID and app IDs (package names).

[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Went to https://play.google.com/console and it all seems to be okay. The two derelict apps already have package IDs and my info is on the identity tab. I think I may have visited that page a year or two ago in response to an email from Google. Or is there something else?

[–] jksalcedo@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

With any luck there will be pushback somewhere that Google can't ignore.