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minus-squarepetrescatraian@libranet.delinkfedilinkarrow-up18·5 months agoI think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk manually.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoDownloading F-Droid from Google Play kind of defeats the purpose of F-Droid.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoYou can still verify the install even if it went through the play store no? Or are apps on the playstore not signed by the developer?
minus-squareNoIWontPickAName@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoF-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.
I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the
.apkmanually.Downloading F-Droid from Google Play kind of defeats the purpose of F-Droid.
You can still verify the install even if it went through the play store no? Or are apps on the playstore not signed by the developer?
I don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.
F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.