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Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The attacks on anonymous publishing seem really coordinated lately. Google is certainly not into this partly to identify and harass the makers of commercially-unfriendly things like alternative YouTube clients. ...And, it will break the chain-of-trust reproducible builds model for things like F-Droid creating a new injection risk. Great.
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