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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/deploy.yml
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84 changes: 84 additions & 0 deletions src/data/quotes/community.yaml
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- quote: "Google selling Android as both open source and open to running any software you like in order to quickly gain market share, only to break those promises after driving competing platforms out of the market is nothing more than fraud."
author: "GeekyBear"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507173"
- quote: "If I go down this path, I will stop all development on Android. I implore all other developers to resist this. This will completely lock down the platform forever, there will be no going back."
author: "BatteryMountain"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "We need to start treating phones differently. We're entering a world where we can't choose what we run on them. Their primary purpose is to gather data on us and serve us advertising, they're engineered for addiction, yet engaging in the world is immensely difficult without one."
author: "specproc"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "It took them 17 years to finally pull the cage all the way shut."
author: "Apocryphon"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507173"
- quote: "The fundamental problem is that we are relying on the good graces of Google to keep Android open, despite the fact that it often runs contrary to their goals as a $4T for-profit behemoth. The 'don't be evil' days are very far behind us."
author: "paxys"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419"
- quote: "This isn't just a competition between app stores; it's a struggle for choice and dignity. Your phone shouldn't be a cage carefully constructed by others, but an extension of your own will."
author: "renshijian"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "I still remember how in the early days of Android vs iOS discussions, the main point was 'but it's OPEN!' The word 'open' was used as a comma by Google people. It was The Thing. The Difference. Good vs Evil and all that."
author: "jwr"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488"
- quote: "My Pixel 6 just broke, and after 15 years of using Android, I've finally been convinced to move to iOS. If I must live in a walled garden, I suppose I'll choose the one with nicer flowers."
author: "yonato"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "Making it harder makes it harder to treat ourselves. Software like AndroidAPS is unique. It's hard to find or very expensive and inferior in the proprietary market."
author: "pimeys"
author_note: "diabetic user on life-critical medical software"
source: "Lobsters"
url: "https://lobste.rs/s/uikg3e/open_letter_google_regarding_mandatory"
- quote: "If your country is ever in the crosshairs of 'American interests' and bears the brunt of its sanctions, it is possible that you cannot install apps from your fellow citizens. Your own local government, bank, and store apps."
author: "devsda"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "Requiring a government ID to distribute software. Holy shit. If you are a kid and want to create a game for your friends, you better get that birth certificate ready!"
author: "llitz"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/"
- quote: "Software gatekeeping is a threat to human rights. Just recently an app to track ICE was banned from the iOS app store even though this should clearly be protected first amendment speech."
author: "gthing"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/"
- quote: "Years ago, I wondered how Google would try to get away with locking down Android and shutting the cage door after capturing such a large dependent user base. Now I see how they are trying to get away with it."
author: "chaznabin"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/"
- quote: "I hate this so much. More and more I get the feeling I have no control over the devices I own. My fear is that Windows will eventually follow. For security reasons of course. It's the path we're on now."
author: "cheesyvoetjes"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/"
- quote: "The second this is actually enacted, I'm switching straight to Apple. Been an avid Android user for 15+ years, why the fuck would they get rid of their basically only competitive advantage: openness and customization?"
author: "theactordude"
author_note: "825 upvotes"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/"
- quote: "The war on General Purpose Computing is the death of innovation and a direct attack on digital freedom."
author: "layfellow"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488"
- quote: "Anyone else thinking this looks like a precursor to banning Signal and similar? 1) Put Google in control of what you can install. 2) Get Google to block it."
author: "harry8"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794"
- quote: "Antitrust action is badly needed. It is ridiculous that I need permission from my device manufacturer to install software on hardware I own."
author: "jim201"
source: "Hacker News"
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569371"
- quote: "Twice I have had to deal with Google silently disabling my drone app to the point I had to buy an older phone to perform work. When I purchase a device that works with another device, under no circumstances should I be at the mercy of any updates they make."
author: "cbrophoto"
author_note: "drone professional"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/"
- quote: "Google's own Play Store had over 600 million malware downloads. They keep talking about 'security' but their own store is crawling with fake apps and straight up malware while actual useful stuff gets buried or rejected."
author: "Historical-Employ129"
author_note: "324 upvotes"
source: "Reddit"
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/"
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- quote: "I'm not using the word 'phone.' I'm using the word 'computer.' This has over 8 GB of RAM, a terabyte of storage. It's a computer. And I'm also not going to be using words like 'sideload.' When you download an exe file onto your Windows computer, you've installed an application. You haven't 'sideloaded' something."
author: "Louis Rossmann"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Android has become what they set out to destroy."
author: "Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R76VJtTDJ8"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "This represents the last real safe place for free and open-source software in the entire mobile ecosystem. Once it's gone, it's gone. And we're going to spend the next decade trying to claw it back."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvqdLsnsKY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "That's not openness. That is control."
author: "ChiefGyk3D"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOPzixHoLY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google is removing the one key advantage Android has over iOS."
author: "SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar)"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcNcOnuRAc"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "The fact of the matter is, this is my device. I paid a lot of money for it. I should be able to do with it what I want."
author: "Switched to Linux"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SOOoQWv4kk"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "This means you can't sideload an app from an unofficial source. But it could also be used to lock the ecosystem so we're forced to install only Google apps on approved Google OS versions."
author: "Rob Braxman Tech"
url: "https://robbraxman.locals.com/post/7230577/"
link_text: "Locals"
- quote: "F-Droid is basically saying that the new Google developer registration process will likely kill the open-source app store entirely."
author: "The Linux Experiment"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqpm2Ahmt0"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "This is an iPhone now. I didn't want to buy an iPhone. I use Android because it gives me freedom. If you are not going to give me freedom with my computer, then why would I buy your stuff anymore?"
author: "Louis Rossmann"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google is doing to Android what Microsoft once tried to do to the web. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Just wrapped in a shinier open-source package."
author: "ChiefGyk3D"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOPzixHoLY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google already can disable malware that they find on your device. It's already a built-in feature. So what is developer registration actually adding here? Is it security or control? You decide."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvqdLsnsKY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Imagine Dell told you that you could no longer install any operating system other than Windows on your laptop. That's what Google is doing to your phone."
author: "SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar)"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcNcOnuRAc"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google has been carefully watching from the sidelines to see what exactly it is that Apple can get away with."
author: "Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R76VJtTDJ8"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "This has obvious problems for non-Google operating systems like iodeOS, LineageOS, or BraxOS. Google Android will 'check in' with Google to verify the identity of the app and to validate the operating system."
author: "Rob Braxman Tech"
url: "https://robbraxman.locals.com/post/7230577/"
link_text: "Locals"
- quote: "Every single time a company takes away your ability to do what you want with what you bought and paid for, every single time they twist a knife, we have to point it out."
author: "Louis Rossmann"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google isn't testing this in the US or Europe first. They're starting in countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Why? Because these are massive growth markets where regulation is weaker. By the time regulators catch up, the damage will already be done."
author: "ChiefGyk3D"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOPzixHoLY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google is setting a requirement that only they can fulfill, forcing developers to go through Google and killing off thousands of apps. Countless users stranded."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvqdLsnsKY"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Developers of privacy-focused tools and emulators will have to dox themselves, making them vulnerable to government agencies or legal action."
author: "SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar)"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcNcOnuRAc"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "The widely-circulated narrative that Google already backed down from this is false. They didn't, and that misunderstanding may be the most dangerous part of the story right now."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZfGq5F1NU"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "Google keeps getting in as much trouble as Apple when Google is half evil and Apple is full evil. So there are probably people inside Google saying, 'Why not just go full evil?'"
author: "Louis Rossmann"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "A world where two tech companies from the same city that dominate all of our mobile devices both require centralized developer registration is a world with one more lever for surveillance, one more checkpoint for censorship."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZfGq5F1NU"
link_text: "YouTube"
- quote: "I have really no more strong reason to not recommend you all get iPhones, because this just is pretty much an iPhone with a Google logo on it at this point."
author: "Techlore"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZfGq5F1NU"
link_text: "YouTube"
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- quote: "Google's story that this move is motivated by security is obviously bullshit. The idea that Google can improve Android's safety by certifying developers, rather than code, is obvious bullshit."
author: "Cory Doctorow"
source: "Pluralistic"
url: "https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/"
- quote: "Google has announced that they are altering the deal. And telling us that we should pray that they don't alter it further. Block this policy change now before they wrap their cold metal hands around our necks."
author: "Jesse Wilson"
source: "PublicObject.com"
url: "https://publicobject.com/2026/02/21/keep-android-open/"
- quote: "The phone you bought and paid for is no longer really yours. Google decides which apps are allowed to be loaded on Android and which are not."
source: "Tuta Blog"
url: "https://tuta.com/blog/android-side-load-apps-google"
- quote: "Innovation may be the biggest casualty in all of this. This new rule erodes your right to make informed decisions about your own devices."
source: "MakeUseOf"
url: "https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/"
- quote: "This could turn Google into the effective gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices."
source: "It's FOSS News"
url: "https://news.itsfoss.com/new-android-sideloading-rules/"
- quote: "There is also the very real possibility that Google will leak your identity with the result that any apps with political implications could result in persecution and worse."
source: "I-Programmer"
url: "https://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/18276-google-demands-dev-identity-for-all-android-apps.html"
- quote: "Google's move is not credibly about 'security,' but actually about consolidating power and tightening control over a formerly open ecosystem."
source: "Techdirt"
url: "https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/"
- quote: "Google's attempts to make Android 'more secure' are, in fact, increasing the risk for Android users. The more friction you introduce in the name of security, the more likely users will attempt to bypass security completely."
author: "Ken Buckler"
source: "Enterprise Management Associates"
url: "https://blog.enterprisemanagement.com/googles-new-android-developer-verification-will-increase-device-security-risk-for-power-users"
- quote: "Once there is no such thing as 'sideloading', there's virtually no difference between iOS and Android. I see no reason to buy Android over iOS at this point."
author: "Thom Holwerda"
source: "OSnews"
url: "https://www.osnews.com/story/144635/google-to-introduce-overly-onerous-hoops-to-prevent-sideloading/"
- quote: "The $25 isn't the real cost. The chilling effect is. Submitting government ID to Google is a non-starter for pseudonymous contributors and privacy researchers."
author: "Arafat Alim"
source: "DEV Community"
url: "https://dev.to/dev-arafat-alim/android-is-losing-its-freedom-googles-2026-developer-verification-explained-2b5p"
- quote: "Developers from sanctioned countries or those without Google Play access cannot verify themselves. This creates systemic discrimination against developers based on birthplace rather than conduct."
author: "agnostic-apollo (Termux developer)"
source: "GitHub"
url: "https://gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a6bef53d417a6"
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- quote: "When you set up a gate, you invite authorities to use it to block things they don't like. And when you build a database, you invite governments to try to get access."
source: "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
url: "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship"
- quote: "Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship."
source: "ACLU"
url: "https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly"
- quote: "Google's abusive approach to the Android operating system has only gotten worse in recent years. Software freedom is sorely lacking in the 'computers in our pockets' we call cell phones."
source: "Free Software Foundation"
url: "https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/app-verification-isnt-googles-only-evil"
- quote: "This invasion of privacy of developers is not just an overreach of Google's authority over Android, but also jeopardizes developer safety."
source: "Software Freedom Conservancy"
url: "https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/24/keep-android-open/"
- quote: "If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open source app distribution sources as we know them today."
source: "F-Droid"
url: "https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html"
- quote: "We unequivocally advise against signing up for this program, now or ever."
source: "F-Droid Open Letter"
url: "https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html"
- quote: "Google Play itself has repeatedly hosted malware, proving that corporate gatekeeping doesn't guarantee user protection."
source: "F-Droid"
url: "https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html"
- quote: "Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority."
source: "F-Droid"
url: "https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html"
- quote: "This extends Google's gatekeeping authority beyond its own marketplace into distribution channels where it has no legitimate operational role."
source: "Open letter, 37+ signatory organizations"
url: "https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/google_android_developer_verification_plan/"
- quote: "Developers who choose not to use Google's services should not be forced to register with, and submit to the judgement of, Google."
source: "Open letter, 37+ signatory organizations"
url: "https://reclaimthenet.org/open-letter-google-android-developer-verification-policy-criticism-2026"
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