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From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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I have actually bought an app on the play store once, because I had a gift card. Turns out, they didn't use the gift card and used my cc on file for Google drive. Had to spend hours sorting that out with automated customer service, never gonna use that again. Their product actually does suck, and a lot of the reason that f-droid doesn't is that they aren't charging you to use it.