alt Hacker NewsYou are thinking about it from the point of view of an enthusiast/hacker who wants to put their homebrew stuff on it. But this is also tightening around developers who may want to distribute their applications to lay users.
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selectively • yesterday at 4:25 PM
Those developers will pay $25 for identity verification and have no issues.
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kube-system • yesterday at 5:37 PM
There are exactly two groups of people who sideload APKs:
* people who know what they're doing
* people who are being victimized
Lay users use Play Store.
Users who use F-Droid are already not as lay. If you distribute stuff that Play Store would ban, your users are likely not as lay, too.
Yes, it's inconvenient, but I see it as a good-faith attempt to limit exposure of lay users to scams, not some power grab.