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JayViiIzzyOnDroid ✅
Screenshot of a mail Android app developers are currently receiving, if they have apps at Google's PlayStore. Highlighted text: 
"Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries."
No exceptions mentioned. Simply "register them – or NOBODY will be able to install them (on certified devices).

Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? Don't be afraid, they said? Something something "we heard you"? Suuuure! Who would ever doubt it!

Attached the copy of a mail developers with apps in the PlayStore CURRENTLY receive. Please, read the text in the red box carefully:

"Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries."

See an exception there? I don't.

#Google #Android #DeveloperCertfication

JayVii

Dear #Mozilla, please seize the opportunity and go the other direction than #Google #Chrome. We need a truly open, #FOSS browser for and by the people, not corporations.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-reimagined-with-ai/

JayVii

Looks like #MetaGer also implemented #Google queries via https://serper.dev/ now. It costs only 1 token per request, which is the same as #Brave and #Mojeek. Let's see how the search results turn out with this.

JayVii

If someone ever tells you they got nothing to hide and do not care about #tracking and #spying by companies or the commercialization of #privacy, show them this:

Techcrunch: Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn


“From detecting ‘scams’ it’s a short step to ‘detecting patterns commonly associated w[ith] seeking reproductive care’ or ‘commonly associated w[ith] providing LGBTQ resources’ or ‘commonly associated with tech worker whistleblowing.’”

#google #ai #censorship

JayVii

#Google's Web Environment Integrity #WEI proposal is detrimental to the #free web. It inshrines web #surveillance even further and gives authoritarian regimes the tools to suppress journalists, activists and any other person even easier.

Read: Defective by Design - WEI is an all-out attack on the free internet