@protonprivacy #ProtonMail on #FDroid with #UnifiedPush when?

Post translated in #Romanian and #Chinese, more to come.

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

@nathanael @GrapheneOS We should be allies in the Android ecosystem (specially during these days) but they choose to be frenemies for some reason.

Fun fact: We talked with more GOS users at FOSDEM than stock Android users.

@oldherl The little X will dismiss it, if annoying

@nathanael @GrapheneOS Custom Android distros are not affected because they care about the freedom of their users.

@simx72 Custom Android distros can and do choose to free their users from such shackles.

@v_d_richards No info on that, no info on anything actually.

@v_d_richards @Preuk https://keepandroidopen.org/ ?

@apicultor If you have questions why not drop by and ask directly? https://f-droid.org/about/#contact Posts from 2021 and half-truths on forums won't give you the information you need.

@apicultor Everything we do is transparent and public, eg. https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/116086537617519438

@TTFKA_Tay0 To be fair, they are not alternatives, they use the same code, and are at the mercy of Google when it comes to releasing such code. Otherwise, once installed, Lineage and other Android distributions can give the freedom back to their users to install what they want.

@Alonely0 @tehstu @cy8aer Note that Obtainium, Aurora and other app stores will have the same issues on 99.9999% of devices if Google goes ahead. Regarding "secure", do read https://f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_How-To/#reproducible-builds too.

@crazyeddie Is the "United States" section is not enough, we might need some better pointers.

@_RyekDarkener_ We'd like to know, what makes it elitist though? As we are always working on making it easier to use so it achieves mainstream usage.

@_RyekDarkener_ Being blocked on 99% of devices for four years until we win such a court case is not the best path

@_RyekDarkener_ It's not only about "your" phone, but of your friends and family too. Note that Google knows PR really well, people already relaxed and forgot about this, as media just repeated the Google texts verbatim.

@crazyeddie The top section has a "You, the consumer" text that you could mention to the private person, and one named "You, the state" that puts things into perspective for them as a representative of the people.

@PVTejas No one saw that flow, so until then, all their posts are PR media control.

@kallekn @murena@mastodon.social @gael Nothing, all will work fine past September 2026. That being said, Google releases Android code less often each year so issues will creep up...