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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Of course they know that. It's about power and money. After all, they already have a security program that filters out malware. If we believe their stated reasoning (which we don't), they're tacitly admitting that their current security program is a complete failure, and also that they will not try to fix it.