Well, I’m not a dev and did that just for SideQuest access, so it’s easy enough… but yeah, for those wishing (near-)total anonymity, I see what you mean…

Right, so the issue is how many devs will stay motivated to keep developing knowing that staying unregistered may significantly reduce users’ draw…

But we’re on Lemmy…

What? You don’t have to be atheist to be against organized religions.

But for such major FOSS development, we usually have to throw money at them in advance, which is the problem.

No, ADB will still allow installation of anonymous apps. All this hullabaloo is talking about non-ADB installation.

Wait… what? Tell us more details…

The what?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Mobile apps should only ever be used for check-scanning or for features that the online banking simply doesn’t allow (which would be messed up of the bank to do); same with mobile wallets.

I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone

Go on… How are you doing so?

That’s exactly what they’re hoping for, and why we need to keep pouring out our outcry to reach them and hope they become more tech-literate.

Wait, what?