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In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

This registration will involve:

  • Paying a fee to Google
  • Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
  • Providing government identification
  • Uploading evidence of an app’s private signing key
  • Listing all current and future application identifiers

Sign the open letter. And get active to help oppose the enactment of the policy in other ways listed on the website. Are there any more ways to oppose this?

  • Shifty Eyes@leminal.spaceEnglish
    131·
    1 day ago

    GrapheneOS for now until Liberux NEXX becomes a thing or whatever linux phone with good enough security, privacy, and hardware. I’m most hopeful for liberux due to the hardware and the desktop mode so you can use it like a PC.

    • antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      1 day ago

      The link is currently dead, but it seems to be the official one.

      I couldn’t access their crowdfunding page either, so maybe they’re dead and gone?

      When searching for it, multiple sources mention there’s a risk of it being a scam, but it’s hard to tell:

      Update from 27 January 2025: Beware of possible fraud As user ElCanch0 writes in the comments of this article, there is a possibility that the Nexx or the upcoming crowdfunding campaign is a scam.

      On news.ycombinator.com, several critical voices point out inconsistencies. Raddish2 writes in the thread that the Liberux employees listed may not exist (he was unable to find any information online) and that the company address may be an ordinary residential building. The address given is not listed in the public cadastre, although Spain normally lists not only buildings but also their floor plans. However, user InceptTM points out that the people can at least be found on LinkedIn. Another user says that he asked around and found out that some people from the company were involved in the bank fraud of Rodrigo Rato, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2017.

      Source (Digitec.ch)

      Another source (Liliputing.com) mentioning the possibility of it being a scam.

      It’s also possible they just didn’t reach their crowdfunding goals, and had to end the project.

      If anyone here knows more about this, I’m interested!

      • Shifty Eyes@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Thanks for the info and details. I’m hoping its real but maybe its best to wait till the 2nd round of production or something, let the journalists and tech reviewers be the guinea pigs for the next crowdfunding.

        • antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I still get “This site can’t be reached” (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED). Not sure why, but maybe their domain is included in some blocklist I use in Adguard Home on my router? I haven’t checked that.