Initially, Google will allow interested developers to sign up for early access starting in October 2025 to test the system and provide feedback. In March 2026, verification will go live for all developers. By September 2026, any app installed on an Android device in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand will have to meet the new requirements. Starting in 2027, the requirements will begin rolling out globally.
This seems bad?
The commentary on Hacker News makes me happy though
Malware is the excuse. Control is the goal. Extracting as much money from people while providing less actual value.
"Plus using GrapheneOS is less of an option every day, since banks and other 'regulated' sectors use Google Play Protect and similar DRMs to prevent you from connecting from whatever device you want."
If humanity loses the general purpose computing devices on which you can run software without permission, they will try next to force the chip implant on you.
On macOS this has existed for a long time. When a developer is unknown (=Apple Inc has not signed the devs pubkeys) then users still have the possibility to bypass it and install anyway
This is an automatic kill switch to ever hit mass adoption for MoE.
Change my Mind.
Nobody except The Devils Advocate could even try.
This seems bad?
The commentary on Hacker News makes me happy though
There seems to be mostly outrage there as well.
876 comments in the discussion on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
No more PWAs?
That's a good point. But even so...
If I recall correctly, other than now defunct Mutiny wallet, there's no lightning wallets PWA's?
And I think their devs stated it was a really difficult problem to build a mobile lightning wallet without the native app features.
Coinos and Blitz Wallet can be installed as PWAs
https://my.shockwallet.app
Connects over nostr to a remote node to obviate the otherwise complex networking and actually be useful for receiving
You maybe interested in this #1194605
This is the perfect resource. Thank you.
It's not just PWAs, right, it's the APKs as well?
That really sucks. Spike in Graphene adoption
Definitely will make me use graphene
"Plus using GrapheneOS is less of an option every day, since banks and other 'regulated' sectors use Google Play Protect and similar DRMs to prevent you from connecting from whatever device you want."
Comment from user arielcostas
I don't think this affects PWAs
But this will affect zapstore
view on njump.meThey're really building a prison, to protect the kids ofc
If humanity loses the general purpose computing devices on which you can run software without permission, they will try next to force the chip implant on you.
On macOS this has existed for a long time. When a developer is unknown (=Apple Inc has not signed the devs pubkeys) then users still have the possibility to bypass it and install anyway