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Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026

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Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026

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A new layer of security for certified Android devices
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Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.
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    Signal, which is only available via Playstore, if I’m not mistaken

    You are, in fact, mistaken

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      Also @Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de, there’s Molly, an alternative signal client.

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        Thanks, didn’t know that existed.
        Although their website is inaccurate, as it seems not to be available on f-droid.

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          It is. Follow these instructions. It adds an F-Droid repository with the applications

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      Interesting…
      I had the conflict with f-droid in my mind, where the Signal developers were very specific about not wanting any Signal builds distributed outside of the Playstore.
      That seems to have changed…?
      But still no build distributed via f-droid, I just checked. But that may still be because the f-droid maintainers really where pissed off at the time…

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        To my knowledge, they prohibit third parties from building distributions and connecting to the centralized server, because fuck open-source, I guess.

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          No that’s due to the tiny hat community doing exactly that & archiving secret chats. Check out Micah Lee’s presentation in Defcon regarding Telemessage-Signal.

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