Comment by ohdeargodno

Additionally, this kills apps like Revanced, NewPipe, SmartTube that will now be required to give out ID to Google, surely that's something they really want to do. All Open source development is at threat, Google's absolute dogshit procedures already imposed for the play store now imposed to the entire ecosystem. All for a shitty system that breaks down to "registering package names". Cool then, guess it's time to typo squat on every variant of com.faceboook.app, because users definitely check the package name and not "oh the icon is right and so is the title".

More and more locked down devices, Android source releases only being published once a year, device drivers for reference devices disappearing, and now, verification of all your software for your "security". The war on general computing is well and truly on.

What the absolute fuck.