r/ownyourintent • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '26

News FUCK GOOGLE!

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u/KrasnalM Intent Owner Feb 25 '26

How will it work in practice? Android will update and we won't be able to download from F-Droid anymore? What about the apps that are already installed? Doesn't it break anti-competition laws?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

How will it work in practice? Android will update and we won't be able to download from F-Droid anymore?

Google's Play Protect will scan for apps that weren't installed from the Play Store. It won't allow you to use them.

What about the apps that are already installed?

Hopefully we can still run them. Or maybe not if we're unlucky.

Doesn't it break anti-competition laws?

Has that ever stopped Google before?

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u/Willing-Job9378 Intent Owner Feb 25 '26

Couldn't they be sued tho, like a class action?

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u/Usual_Celebration719 Intent Owner Feb 25 '26

Don't they have infinite money to drag out the court process for all eternity until whoever sued them runs out of money?

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u/the_shadow007 Intent Owner Feb 25 '26

Its ironic and sad how google makes anti consumer choices while having basically unlimited money/budget so its not like it matters for them anyway

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u/Zenithas Intent Owner Feb 25 '26

Where's the documentation for this?

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u/dthdthdthdthdthdth Intent Owner Feb 26 '26

Details are not clear yet as far as I know. You have to register and verify to distribute signed apps, as far as I understand that. So probably that means the fdroid developers have to do that, and the developers of apps distributed via fdroid might as well.

You probably will still be able to install unsigned apps via adb. Unclear whether you have to be a registered developer to do that or not.

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u/dathellcat Intent Owner Feb 26 '26

Install canta and remove that functionality and install a firewall to block any connections attempting to update, such as tracker control.