F-Droid is warning that the project could reach an end due to Google's new requirements for all Android developers to verify their identity.

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Google's upcoming requirements to verify app developers threaten to 'end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution,' F-Droid says in a post.

F-Droid says Google's developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.

F-Droid has been around for about 15 years and is the largest source of free and open source software (FOSS) for Android. Because the apps in F-Droid are not installed via the Play Store, you have to ...

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Google now requires developer ID verification for new Play Store accounts, a move that the F-Droid project says could endanger its existence and user privacy.

The creators of the alternative app store F-Droid say that the new developer review rules would make Google the gatekeeper for all Android apps.

Essentially the anti-Play Store, F-Droid is a volunteer-run catalog of free and open-source apps that are built from source, stripped of ads and trackers, and cryptographically signed to guarantee ...