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rpdillonyesterday at 2:19 PM0 repliesview on HN

Well, Google is keeping the fees and the ID requirements for devs, while also vastly shrinking the population that will be willing to get permission to sideload from Google, decimating much of F-Droid's reach. They are basically attacking freedom on both sides, clamping down and extracting on the supply side, and creating friction and confusion on the demand side.

I'm extremely worried for the future of open source on mobile operating systems. We traded freedom for convenience.