If Google goes through with the changes to Android,
F-Droid will end for all stock android users, and their app store/repos be only for the Degoogled OS folks.
Their blog discusses:
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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This change will almost certainly cause a substantial increase in user count for GrapheneOS and other FOSS Android forks. As they squeeze, note and more get pushed out.
If this come, the only solution will be linux because developers will not be able to create app without KYC
Android studio will require a KYC
“Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme in order to publish and distribute their works is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority in order to be able to distribute their creative works.”
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switch to linux as well
Well this is why we started hydraveil as a linux app, and people should not live 100% of their lives on their phone. Yes phones are needed, but not literally everything you do, with these apps from play store to function
I hope you're right