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In the new blog post, Google’s Matthew Forsythe confirms that the developer verification system is slated to come online on September 30 of this year. The initial deployment will be limited to countries with a high level of app scams: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand.
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Google released its new developer console back in March, inviting external developers the opportunity to pay $25 and verify their identities early. Developers who don’t register will find that their apps cannot be sideloaded on Google-certified Android devices once verification has rolled out. Google says that almost every app in the Play Store is now ready for the change, and a “large majority” of apps outside Google Play have completed verification.
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Google says it will verify the apps in the following stores when it begins enforcing the new restrictions.
Google (Google Play)
Honor (HONOR App Market)
OPlus (OPPO App Market)
Samsung (Galaxy Store)
Transsion (Palm Store)
vivo (V-Appstore)
Xiaomi (GetApps)
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The next step toward verifying apps will come this month as Google deploys a new system service on most certified devices. The package (com.google.android.verifier) will appear on phones and tablets running Android 8 or higher, allowing Google to block the installation of unverified apps. It will remain dormant until verification is activated in your specific region.
In July, Google plans to roll out the new developer APIs and begin testing for “limited distribution” accounts. This is Google’s solution for hobbyists who want to make their own apps and share them with a small group. Limited accounts won’t require a fee or government ID verification, but you can install these apps on up to 20 devices.
In August, the advanced flow will become available globally ahead of verification becoming mandatory in the first markets. As detailed a few months ago, the advanced flow will allow users to bypass verification, but the process isn’t easy. You’ll have to navigate to a buried menu, confirm you understand the risks multiple times, and wait a whole day before completing the process.
And that brings us to September, when Android devices in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand will begin checking verification status before installing apps. However, things get murky after that. Google will undoubtedly monitor how verification works as millions of users are suddenly limited to verified apps, which could affect how it moves forward. Google says it intends to expand developer verification in 2027, eventually making it a global device policy.
They should police their own store then. Fuck this “oh they have to” shit.
This is what it looks like when they police their store.
This is what it looks like when they try to police the software that’s NOT from their store (or their partners).
All the Google-verified malware that infests Google’s marketplace will continue to be a problematic vector after this change. But this change will put obstacles in my attempts to install safe alternatives that are free of malware and not part of Google’s junkyard or spyware full of anti-features.
The phone someone purchased from Samsung isn’t “their store” bud. The play store is.
And someone can either disable the system service that does this and go without play services (which is their store) or get a “limited” developer account and keep doing whatever they’re doing.
you have no idea what you are talking about. almost every statement in your comment is incorrect.
you have also ignored the other user pointing out that with this change they are going much further than policing their own store (something they have been consistently failing at for many years).
This, again, is what policing an application marketplace looks like.
The point isn’t to protect you the user, but to protect the reputation of their platform. Right now, and I know this isn’t easy to hear, Android is the scam/insecure platform.
I am a user of Android devices everyday, btw, not just some random hater.
From googles perspective it doesn’t matter if users are unable to anonymously install whatever they want if the various marketplaces and therefore the Android platform gains trust in the eyes of consumers (and law enforcement/security professionals).
They aren’t policing their platform to protect you, they’re doing it to protect themselves.
do you have issues with reading comprehension? the marketplace stops right at the google play store. that is their marketplace, nothing more.
I’m sure about that, and they are also happy for the increased amount of analytics. apps a user knows is a good way to make an advertising profile more accurate.
google can only thank that for its own false advertising, promising “security”, lockdown against the owner for the advantage of the businesses. android phones should not be about the device owned by your bank and your government, but the thing owned by the individual who uses it.
and that’s a huge problem, because they are trampling on ownership rights. they are making money out of nullifying the right to privacy, and actually by convincing people that it is an obsolete right, and that they should criticize their peers who want privacy.
they can only protect themselves in such an abusive manner because they have an effective monopoly. if google did not become too big, people could just say no to all this bullshit.
“He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing.”
Of course, we don’t need to get into sci fi philosophy to recognize that Android is googles os.
Google has the ability to restrict who can install what from what repo and as such “the Samsung store isn’t the play store” isn’t much of an argument.
I don’t think anyone would say that the Android marketplace stops at the play store and Google certainly doesn’t say that. They’re in control of Android, they’re policing the Android software marketplace. Apologies if that wasn’t clear.
It would be really hard to prove that Google is trampling on ownership rights here considering you can install from third party sources by either registering a dev account or disabling the set of services and software that implements the system, going without play services and using whatever third party store you want.
(Or even just in the articles own words “ the advanced flow will allow users to bypass verification, but the process isn’t easy. You’ll have to navigate to a buried menu, confirm you understand the risks multiple times, and wait a whole day before completing the process.”)
And no matter how you feel about it at the moment there is no recognized right to install whatever you want on your phone. It’s unlikely there will be one in the near future either because such a right is counter to the interests of the surveillance state.
Its shocking how wrong you are in everything you’ve said. Give up on this conversation and let the grown ups talk
Point it out or stop breaking the rules of the com and instance.
it have been fucking pointed out on many points, and you are just ignoring it, coming up with other outrageously incorrect statements.
As others have said, its been pointed out several times. You don’t care. You will continue to make up random shit. You are truly an exhausting person to talk to.