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r/Android • u/RedditForcesToLogin • Nov 11 '25
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Developers have to: 1) Pay a fee to Google 💲
2) Agree to Google's Terms & Conditions. So, no Revanced / Newpipe 👩⚖️
3) Upload their government ID to a foreign company
What Users lose: 1) Many apps will Stop working, devs wouldn't want to PAY to Google to keep their free app alive. 2) Countries like Russia / Iran,
No sideloading = No VPN = No freedom.
-8 u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25 [deleted] 9 u/vortexmak Nov 11 '25 You again. For the nth time. We shouldn't need to do workarounds on our own fucking devices that we paid our own fucking money for 1 u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25 Narrator: But it wasn't the last time Edit: the person these comments were based on blocked me because I called Google an ad company and they argued they're a hardware company despite their ad revenue being around 60-70% of their complete revenue year on year lmfao
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9 u/vortexmak Nov 11 '25 You again. For the nth time. We shouldn't need to do workarounds on our own fucking devices that we paid our own fucking money for 1 u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25 Narrator: But it wasn't the last time Edit: the person these comments were based on blocked me because I called Google an ad company and they argued they're a hardware company despite their ad revenue being around 60-70% of their complete revenue year on year lmfao
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You again. For the nth time.
We shouldn't need to do workarounds on our own fucking devices that we paid our own fucking money for
1 u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25 Narrator: But it wasn't the last time Edit: the person these comments were based on blocked me because I called Google an ad company and they argued they're a hardware company despite their ad revenue being around 60-70% of their complete revenue year on year lmfao
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Narrator:
But it wasn't the last time
Edit: the person these comments were based on blocked me because I called Google an ad company and they argued they're a hardware company despite their ad revenue being around 60-70% of their complete revenue year on year lmfao
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u/RedditForcesToLogin Nov 11 '25
Developers have to: 1) Pay a fee to Google 💲
2) Agree to Google's Terms & Conditions. So, no Revanced / Newpipe 👩⚖️
3) Upload their government ID to a foreign company
What Users lose: 1) Many apps will Stop working, devs wouldn't want to PAY to Google to keep their free app alive. 2) Countries like Russia / Iran,
No sideloading = No VPN = No freedom.