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Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns (www.androidauthority.com)

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Google’s new developer registration requirements could make it impossible for independent Android app stores like F-Droid to survive, the group behind the open-source repository has warned in a new blog post

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean every distro has a different experience.

There are sources that show it’s higher than Statcounter’s estimate and many in the community consider that website to be inaccurate as there’s a lot of pcs under the unknown category since Linux folks tend to be more privacy focused. It’s big enough that developers are now factoring Linux support for projects.