The EU likes the power to delist apps by compelling two companies (Apple and Google) to do so.

Android is moving to the same, KYC (credit or debit card; no prepaid cards) with play store required for APK distribution

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rstat1 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Play Store is not required for APK distribution. Not now, nor has it ever been.

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Zagitta 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yet https://keepandroidopen.org/

	▲	rstat1 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		is like much of the discourse around the changes, overly sensationalized and borderline false.

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dannyw 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They’ve announced they’re changing the policy to require ‘verification’ in future Android versions.

It will likely be delayed, just like Manifest v3, but eventually it will happen.

	▲	mook 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, they seem to have started shipping parts of that; recently I noticed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... was installed for me.

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xp84 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah, I think for as much as many of us hold out hope that the EU will break the back of these brazen monopolists, there's a limit to their friendliness to the actual interests of consumer freedom when it's got to be balanced by their love of censorship.

	▲	ahartmetz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Whatever censorship exists in the EU is really inconsequential. What bothers me is the spying.