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Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android appsnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
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135 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 5h
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.
There seems to be mostly outrage there as well.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 1h
876 comments in the discussion on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @BlokchainB 5h
No more PWAs?
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60 sats \ 2 replies \ @bounty_hunter OP 5h
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.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5h
Coinos and Blitz Wallet can be installed as PWAs
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h
https://my.shockwallet.app
Connects over nostr to a remote node to obviate the otherwise complex networking and actually be useful for receiving
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5h
I don't think this affects PWAs
But this will affect zapstore
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 4h
It's not just PWAs, right, it's the APKs as well?
That really sucks. Spike in Graphene adoption
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingecko 1h
Definitely will make me use graphene
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 3h
They're really building a prison, to protect the kids ofc
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @bounty_hunter OP 5h
This is an automatic kill switch to ever hit mass adoption for MoE.
Change my Mind.
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