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I swapped houses with a stranger to see if I'd like living in Seattle. One month in, I got my answer.

support@mycoding.id (Heather Snow) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:48:48 +0700

I lived in Seattle for a duration to see if i wanted to move there permanently. Heather Snow

After 18 years of living in San Francisco, I was earnestly starting to regard moving.

I loved the existence I had built there, but taking the next stage — akin purchasing my own home alongside a pace — felt out of attain for me. However, I was fearful I would regret leaving the location I had called residence for so many years.

When thinking of places I'd akin to live, Seattle immediately came to mind. I figured the city would recommendation akin energy and occupation opportunities as San Francisco, and I loved its proximity to striking natural beauty.

Plus, I'd visited the West Coast city many times and had a fine companion who lived there, so it seemed akin a logical move. But alternatively of taking the jump immediately, I decided to test out living in the city for a duration to create certain it was the correct fit for me.

Through HomeExchange, a phase that allows users to swap homes alongside group from about the world, I traded my Noe Valley condo for a home alongside a pace in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle for the duration of July.

I got to cognition Seattle as a local alternatively of a tourist

It was engaging being capable to cognition the city as a local would. Heather Snow

Although I'd visited Seattle many times complete the years, this was my archetypal chance to test mundane existence there alongside my dog, Pepper — not fair cognition the city as a tourist.

I worked remotely, went grocery shopping, and checked out the Ballard Farmers Market on Sundays. Pepper and I explored distinct parks on dawn walks and went to local breweries in the evenings.

I really prioritized spending period in Ballard, since that was the neighborhood I was most curious in perchance calling home. I loved that the residential parts were filled alongside single-family homes on tree-lined streets, but the location was additionally walkable to a historic center filled alongside shops, restaurants, and bars.

It felt akin it could be the ideal blend of having a residence alongside a pace in a residential neighborhood, during motionless having the city existence and walkability I loved in San Francisco.

I mostly spent period in the walkable Ballard neighborhood. Heather Snow

However, staying for a duration additionally allowed me to cognition several of the ache points I'd agreement alongside as a local.

For example, although I established Ballard incredibly walkable, formerly I remaining the neighborhood, Seattle as a entire felt much additional dispersed out and suburban than San Francisco. I established myself driving and sitting in traffic additional than I'm used to.

One night, I was welcomed to go to my friend's home for dinner. What I idea would be a quick, 30-minute run turned into a 55-minute headache in rush-hour traffic. In this moment, I realized moving about the city would necessitate additional preparedness than I initially expected.

Having Pepper alongside me additionally gave me insights into dog regulations that I never would have noticed on vacation. Although Seattle is a extremely dog-friendly city, I established there are additional restrictions about h2o admission and off-leash areas than I always would have known concerning as a tourist.

I'm used to letting Pepper run off-leash in the dirt at Fort Funston in San Francisco, but I established that most sandy beaches in Seattle don't authorize dogs. Luckily, she was motionless capable to sunbathe and people-watch from the pace of the home we were staying in.

The home toggle helped me fig out what I desire from a imperishable home

Even although Seattle isn't for me, it helped me fig out what I desire next. Heather Snow

Having person remain in my residence gave me understanding into what she loved concerning it, and it made me value what I already had.

The female I traded homes alongside mentioned that many of my neighbors greeted her and that group were affable on her regular dog walks in Noe Valley. I wasn't amazed that she felt this way. After all, the community in my neighborhood is one of my favorite things concerning San Francisco.

Spending period distant gave me clarity on what I value in the residence I already have, and several viewpoint on what I desire in my next home.

A duration in Seattle made it apparent that the city is not my place. It additionally confirmed that I wanted several things that are out of attain for me in San Francisco since of the disbursal of housing, akin a home alongside a yard.

Ideally, I'd akin to discover a location that combines the finest parts of the two cities: affordability, a walkable neighborhood alongside a awareness of community, and natural beauty. I additionally realized that avoiding dense traffic and crowds may average looking beyond important cities.

Thankfully, selling homes was a comparatively low-cost, low-risk way to test a important existence decision akin moving. Before making an costly move, I was capable to refine my catalog of what I desire in my next home, and what I don't.

For now, I'm motionless searching for my new city, but my imagination of what the next division volition appearance akin is much clearer.

Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

support@mycoding.id (Emma Roth) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:47:41 +0700

Emma Roth

is a news author who covers the streaming wars, person tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a author and publishing company at MUO.

Meta is delaying the implementation of its new endeavor conditions following publishers raised concerns that they could authorize the business to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported before by Fast Company. In a declaration to The Verge, Meta spokesman Daniel Roberts says the conditions volition go into consequence on November 20th “to authorize additional period for us to explain to our partners and stakeholders what’s changing and what’s not.”

The business terms, which were initially expected to go into consequence on October 30th, appeared to provision Meta approval to openly scrape the new sites that use its platforms, during using the matter for AI training. Though Meta updated these conditions to eliminate tongue concerning “training” its products, lawful experts argued the alter is not enough to regulation out the possibility.

The News/Media Alliance sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, demanding that the business revise its endeavor conditions complete concerns that they would logic “severe harm” to publishers. Digital advertisers and publishers in the European Union and the UK also urged regulators to power Meta to halt its new terms.

In reply to this backlash, Meta is now delaying its new conditions entirely. Roberts says the postpone volition provision Meta additional period to lay out “how Meta uses web crawlers and the fact that satisfied owners volition motionless be capable to use robots.txt to indication preferences,” referring to the document that signals to scrapers whether they can crawl a site.

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13 books you should read before they're turned into movies and TV shows this year

support@mycoding.id (Gabbi Shaw) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:45:53 +0700

Timothée Chalamet stars in "Dune." Warner Bros.

Any booklover knows that news of an adaptation can be complicated: Can we rely the directors, screenwriters, and actors to bring our favorite stories to life?

This year's movie slate is filled alongside books that are near and beloved to thousands of readers, including classics that are decades (or centuries) old, akin "Pride and Prejudice, "A Christmas Carol," and "Dune Messiah."

There are additionally several new classics set to be adapted this year, including "Klara and the Sun" and "Sunrise on the Reaping."

We've compiled a catalog of 13 must-read books that you should expert open before they're adapted this year.

'Whalefall'

"Whalefall." MTV Books

Release date: October 16 in theaters

Daniel Kraus published "Whalefall" in 2023. It's a beautiful self-contained, if wild, story: What would happen if you got swallowed by a whale? And not in a biblical, Jonah sense — in a literal, swallowed-while-scuba-diving sense.

The movie stars Austin Abrams as Jay (get it? J as in Jonah?) and Josh Brolin as Mitt, Jay's deceased father, from whom he was estranged. That's the entire logic he dives in the archetypal place; he's diving to discover his father's remains.

'Wildwood'

"Wildwood." Storytide

Release date: October 23 in theaters

Stop-motion studio LAIKA's latest film, "Wildwood," is according to the 2011 novel of the identical name, written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis.

Both the movie and the publish prosecute Prue, a teenager, whose baby brother, Mac, is taken by a group of birds and taken into a mystical forest. She, alongside alongside her classmate Curtis, ventures into the woods to rescue Mac and perchance preserve this magical land.

Prue is voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Curtis is voiced by Jacob Tremblay. Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Angela Bassett, Charlie Day, and Amandla Stenberg additionally star.

'Klara and the Sun'

"Klara and the Sun." Alfred A. Knopf

Release date: October 23 in theaters

Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel "Klara and the Sun" was longlisted for the Booker Prize upon its publication.

The publish takes location in a not-too-distant dystopian forthcoming anywhere affluent children can be gifted "Artificial Friends" to assistance them socialize, since now all schooling is done at home, online. Klara, the narrator, is purchased for a ill female named Josie.

In the film, which was cowritten and directed by Taika Waititi, Klara volition be played by Jenna Ortega, Josie volition be played by Mia Tharia, and Josie's mom, Chrissie, volition be played by Amy Adams.

'The Good Daughter'

"The Good Daughter." William Morrow

Release date: November 12 on Peacock

Karin Slaughter's "The Good Daughter" is a bestselling thriller that was published in 2017.

It follows two sisters, Charlotte and Samantha, whose lives were shattered as kids whenever their mother was murdered and their begetter was traumatized. Now, as adults, Charlotte has followed in her dad's footsteps and tried to be the ideal daughter. Samantha chose to agreement alongside her sorrow in a, shall we say, distinct way.

In the Peacock series, Rose Byrne plays Samantha and Meghann Fahy plays Charlotte.

'Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist'

"Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist." Beacon Press

Release date: November 13 on Apple TV+

Director Siân Heder's follow-up to finest image victor "CODA" is "Being Heumann," a biopic concerning Judith Heumann, who is known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement." It's according to her 2020 memoir of the identical name.

The movie stars Ruth Madeley as Judith, Mark Ruffalo as United States Health and Human Services Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., and Dylan O'Brien as a newsman who covers Judith's protests.

'Victorian Psycho'

"Victorian Psycho." Liveright

Release date: November 13 in theaters

"Victorian Psycho" was written by Virginia Feito and published in 2025.

The narrative follows Winifred Notty, a governess sent to Ensor House (a gothic dream), who seems additional akin Patrick Bateman than Maria von Trapp.

Maika Monroe volition perform Winifred.

'A Christmas Carol'

"A Christmas Carol." Aladdin

Release date: November 13 in theaters

Yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," initially published in 1843, is hitting theaters this year.

This period it's called "Ebenezer" and stars Johnny Depp as Scrooge. He'll be joined by Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's long-suffering employee, Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ian McKellen as Scrooge's deceased endeavor partner Marley, Sam Claflin as Scrooge's nephew Fred, and Daisy Ridley as Fred's spouse Clara.

This type of the narrative volition be helmed by director Ti West, so it power be a additional horror-forward type of the classic.

'The Bodyguard'

"The Bodyguard." Griffin

Release date: November 18 on Netflix

Netflix archetypal announced that Katherine Center's novel "The Bodyguard," published in 2022, volition be adapted for the streamer in September 2025.

The narrative follows Jack Stapleton, a celebrated performer alongside a stalker, who hires bodyguard Hannah Brooks to defend him. But since he doesn't desire to concern his ill mother, the two alternatively feign to date.

The capture alongside this adaptation? Since there's already a quite famous movie called "The Bodyguard," Netflix, alongside alongside stars Leighton Meester (Hannah) and Jared Padalecki (Jack), asked fans to arrive up alongside a new name for the film, and they landed on "Guarding Stars."

'Sunrise on the Reaping'

"Sunrise on the Reaping." Scholastic Press

Release date: November 20 in theaters

For years, fans begged "Hunger Games" author Suzanne Collins to inform the narrative of Haymitch Abernathy's games. In March 2025, she obliged, publishing "Sunrise on the Reaping," a "Hunger Games" prequel that takes location 24 years before the archetypal novel.

It tells the narrative of the 25th Hunger Games, which Haymitch, the forthcoming tribute mentor for District 12, won. As alongside all "Hunger Games" books, it's devastating.

"The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" boasts an all-star mold of Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Billy Porter, Maya Hawke, Lili Taylor, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Whitney Peak, and newcomer Joseph Zada as Haymitch.

'The Titan's Curse'

The Titan's Curse Puffin Books

Release date: November 20 on Disney+

Season three of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" is set to premiere on November 20. This period consists of eight episodes and concludes on December 11.

This period is according to the third installment in Rick Riordan's books: "The Titan's Curse." It sees Percy (Walker Scobell) go on a goal to rescue his friend, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries), and the goddess Artemis (Dafne Keen) following they're kidnapped by mysterious forces.

'In a Holidaze'

"In a Holidaze." Pocket Books

Release date: December 2 on Netflix

Romance powerhouse duo Christina Lauren published their archetypal holiday love narrative in 2020, called "In a Holidaze."

This is a classic time-loop story that follows Mae (Maddie Ziegler) as she returns residence for Christmas, resolute to inform her longtime crush Andrew (Graham Phillips) how she really feels. But whenever everything goes wrong, alternatively of dealing alongside the fallout, she relives the identical day complete and over.

'Pride and Prejudice'

"Pride and Prejudice." Penguin Young Readers Group

Release date: December 3 on Netflix

"Sense and Sensibility" wasn't the lone Jane Austen novel getting adapted this twelvemonth — complete 20 years following Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen played Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, there's a new duo in town that's prepared to perform these iconic yearners.

In this Netflix miniseries, adapted by Dolly Alderton, Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden volition perform the two. They'll be joined by Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Daryl McCormack, Louis Patridge, Jamie Demetriou, Fiona Shaw (who was additionally in "Sense and Sensibility" this year), and Freya Mavor.

'Dune Messiah'

"Dune: Messiah." Berkley Medallion

Release date: December 18 in theaters

After the two-part adaptation of "Dune," the third movie in the sequence is set to modify Frank Herbert's second novel, "Dune Messiah," published in 1969.

Picking up following the events of "Dune: Part Two," "Dune: Part Three" volition prosecute Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he struggles to authority the galaxy, forestall the death of millions, avenge his father, and juggle relationships alongside Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh) and his affection Chani (Zendaya).

Editor's Note: This narrative was archetypal published in December 2025 and was final updated in October 2026.

I've photographed weddings for over a decade. Here are 4 of the biggest mistakes I see couples make.

support@mycoding.id (Cameron Dever) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:44:18 +0700

I've seen all kinds of weddings complete the former decade, but many couples create the identical mistakes. Courtesy of Cameron Dever

I've been photographing weddings for complete a decade, so I've witnessed countless ceremonies and receptions — several disastrous, others impeccable.

Throughout the years, I've additionally watched couples create the identical mistakes complete and over. Here are a few I desire they'd avoid.

Filling the day-of agenda alongside way too much

Couples have to discover period for the ceremony, photos, dining and drinking, dancing, talking to the group they invited, and connecting alongside all other.

When you try to fit too many things into the day, no one — particularly the married couple — has period to breathe and relish the moments. The day can awareness rushed and additional focused on activities than the ritual of love.

A packed agenda frequently leaves couples stressed, alongside no period to eat since they've been pushed from one 15-minute opening to the next.

However, your wedding day shouldn't be a blur. You should have period to soak in all moment. When you map out your day, prioritize traditions you affection and evaluation how lengthy all volition obtain … afterward add buffers.

I additionally propose operating alongside a wedding planner or coordinator to scheme your timeline, or consulting alongside your lensman and another vendors whenever arranging your schedule. They've informed countless weddings and cognize firsthand how much period all action normally takes.

Letting small mishaps and issues ruin the entire day

Learning how to chuckle off the small mishaps is entirely key. Courtesy of Cameron Dever

One of the things I continually inform my couples correct before their wedding day is that item volition go wrong.

I don't say this to scare them or create them worry, but mostly to modify their expectations. No matter how much preparedness you do, group are imperfect, the climate can be unpredictable, and existence happens.

By the period the day comes, couples have done all they can to create certain it's how they pictured it. All that matters following that is that they bask their wedding.

Missing flowers or a pie that's the incorrect sensation can throw off your day — but these unexpected mishaps shouldn't be so consuming that they're all you recall from your wedding.

I don't desire to observer any additional miserable couples desperately trying to fix particulars that volition never be exactly right. Please try to rotate alongside the punches on your wedding day.

Hiring the incorrect lensman or videographer

I may be a bit biased, but I powerfully accept having crucial memories correctly documented in photo and video form is priceless.

I've additionally heard from countless wed couples who regret booking a subpar lensman or skipping a videographer.

When hiring any vendors — particularly these — choose carefully. You're paying person to use their bodily and imaginative energy to inform the narrative of your wedding.

Ask a ton of questions and create certain you affection their manner by viewing their portfolios and websites. It can additionally assistance to hop on a phone call or video gathering — couples should esnsure they vibe alongside their photo and video squad on a individual flat since they'll be spending a lot of period alongside them on the big day.

Planning the wedding they think they should have alternatively of the one they really want

You don't have to have a cookie-cutter wedding. Courtesy of Cameron Dever

Weddings are for the couple, so they should do what they want.

I see so many of them expend thousands of dollars and dedicate countless hours to planning, lone to commemorate their affection the way they think they're expected to — not how they'd really like.

Your wedding have to be unique to you, and it doesn't need to appearance akin everyone else's. If you desire to elope in the timber or scheme a domain inspired by "Bridgerton" in a mansion, go for it.

The brace is at the center of the celebration, so why shouldn't everything be according to who they are and what matters most to them?

Consider this my authoritative community assistance announcement: Your wedding can — and should — be fun, unique, and meaningful to you.

This narrative was initially published in June 2021 and most lately updated on October 23, 2026.

The Sigma FP2 brings significant upgrades to the ‘world’s smallest’ full-frame camera

support@mycoding.id (Andrew Liszewski) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:42:46 +0700

Seven years following Sigma claimed its first fp was the world’s smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the company has announced a likewise compact follow-up alongside multiple greeted upgrades including an improved sensor, an articulating LCD display, and longer power division life. But this period about Sigma is lone claiming its new FP2 is the “world’s smallest” full-frame shooter as those upgrades have risen its body-only importance by concerning six grams.

The Sigma FP2 volition be accessible on November 11th and starts at $2,199 for the camera build alone. For $2,749 you can bundle it alongside Sigma’s upgraded EVF-21 viewfinder featuring a 5.76 myriad dot OLED panel and an eye sensor the camera uses to toggle between its LCD display and viewfinder. For the identical cost you can alternately bundle the new camera alongside an I-series 50mm F2 DG lens.

The biggest upgrade for the FP2 is a new 24.5-megapixel, partially stacked, back-side illuminated, full-frame CMOS sensor. In conditions of resolution it’s a small stage downward from the first fp’s 24.6-megapixel sensor, but the new architecture allows for faster data study off the FP2’s sensor. That comes alongside many benefits including a reduced rolling shutter consequence in stills (the camera is motionless constricted to fair an digital shutter), faster autofocus capabilities that now contain animal acknowledgment in supplement to group and animals, motionless shooting at up to 20fps, and video capabilities that max out at 6K at 60fps, or 4K at 120fps whenever using lone a cropped part of the sensor.

The Sigma FP2 carries onward the streamlined and compact build of the first which can motionless occasionally outcome in challenging ergonomics, particularly alongside a longer lens attached. But multiple tripod mounts facilitate the use of optional accessories akin an extended grip and the aforementioned viewfinder. Its 3.2-inch, 2.1-million dot LCD touchscreen on the rear can now viewpoint up and downward to facilitate additional shooting angles during at the identical period improving airflow and cooling so the FP2 can document videos for longer.

A full-size HDMI harbor has been added that’s additional durable than the first fp’s micro HDMI option, alongside two USB-C ports. One is constricted to USB 2.0 speeds and is chiefly designed to be used for powering the camera or connecting accessories akin headphones or the viewfinder. The another is a 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 harbor that can be used for high-speed data transfers or for connecting an external SSD for capturing footage in Apple’s ProRes RAW format.

There’s fair a sole SD cardstock slot so there’s no choice for redundant backup storage, but the FP2 does arrive alongside 70GB of retention built-in that can be used whenever your recollection cardstock unexpectedly fills. Sigma has additionally risen the capability of the power division in the FP2. It makes the new example nearer to 40 grams heavier than the first fp alongside the power division inserted, but offers 30 percent longer power division existence which equates to about 370 photos, or concerning 130 minutes of video capture, according to the company.

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Volvo plans to cut 2,500 jobs due to China's bruising pricing war

support@mycoding.id (Ben Shimkus) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:40:10 +0700

Legacy automakers are struggling to vie in China. Bloomberg/Getty Images

China's merciless car market is taking a nip out of Volvo.

On Friday, the Swedish luxury automaker stated income in China cut by nearly 50% complete the former year. The business said, akin many bequest premium automakers, it's facing expanding "hypercompetition" from Chinese competitors.

Volvo plans to cut 2,500 jobs globally in response, it said, including approximately 2,000 in Sweden. That's part of an attempt to slash expenses by concerning $530 million.

"We continue to run in a extremely durable surroundings alongside powerful external challenges: de-globalisation, hypercompetition and climate change," CEO Håkan Samuelsson stated in a statement.

It's the latest stark example of the expanding force on bequest automakers in China. Several big-name car companies — including Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz — have lately reported slowing revenue from their Chinese dealerships.

Volvo is majority-owned by Geely Auto Group, a Chinese automaking conglomerate.

The business stated the reductions volition be made by a blend of ending adviser contracts, natural attrition, and targeted employee exit packages.

China is not Volvo's lone problem. The business additionally stated that US tariffs and the defeat of Washington's person incentives for electrified cars squeezed margins. Volvo earlier bet heavily on a fast person passage to electric vehicles, aiming for an all-electric portfolio by 2030. It's since walked rear that goal to contain plug-in hybrid vehicles.

The automaker additionally stated that Polestar — its EV offshoot that is exiting the US market — additionally posted losses.

Volvo's answer is to get additional local: the automaker stated it would current two caller cars tailored specifically for the Chinese market by the center of next year. Those cars volition be developed in near collaboration alongside Geely and volition contain a Chinese tech stack and advanced driver-assist technologies "to create them completely rivalrous in China."

I spent years building a 'stable' life and climbing the ladder at work. Then, I quit my job and moved to Hungary.

support@mycoding.id (Sarah Catherine Cowie) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:40:01 +0700

I continually loved Budapest, but never idea I'd really be capable to move here. Sarah Catherine Cowie

For most of my 20s, I wanted to ascend the occupation ladder — and hoped that as shortly as I reached the top, everything would rotate into apparent and I would live happily always after.

My existence felt akin it was headed in the correct direction. I was on a steady, breathtaking occupation trajectory in the climate guideline field. I equal bought my archetypal flat in an up-and-coming area of Edinburgh.

Then, my dad was diagnosed alongside terminal malignancy in delayed 2022. The next few years were spent grappling alongside his sickness and, eventually, his death.

I quickly felt the entire ecosystem of my existence autumn apart. I was struggling at work, and I didn't cognize how to ask for help. I tried my finest to transport on as normal and try to convince myself that the activity I was doing — and, by extension, myself — was important.

As I bordered toward my 30th anniversary in first 2025, against a backdrop of sorrow and burnout, the need for alter felt urgent and existential.

I made a drastic change

I decided to go rear to academy in a new country. Sarah Catherine Cowie

It was shortly following this, in the spring, that I decided a move abroad was exactly what I needed.

I discontinue my job and spent the next few months sending applications to schools throughout Europe, expecting to prosecute a master's flat in my site and embark on a caller start.

When an recommendation came from a university in Budapest, I knew that was anywhere I would be going. I had visited for the archetypal period concerning a decade prior, and fallen in love. I recall thinking, "I could see myself living current one day," not thinking that that "one day" would always really come.

In September, I packed up my life, started renting out my Edinburgh flat, and made the move.

The archetypal few months brought a mix of excitement, fear, and disbelief. There was a lot of bureaucracy to navigate — forms to inhabit out, applications to be processed — and I couldn't unwind until everything was completed.

I was additionally beautiful lonely in the beginning. When I archetypal moved, I didn't cognize a sole individual in Budapest and had to build a entirely new social circle from scratch.

I additionally sometimes felt akin an imposter: I was a lot older than the fresh-faced students in their first 20s who made up the bulk of my classmates. It felt akin I was in a entirely distinct existence stage, and I was concerned I didn't fit in.

Financially, the move has been difficult

Once I got settled, many of my anxieties subsided. I loved my new flat and enjoyed going rear to school and learning new things.

Unfortunately, the hardest part — finding activity — is ongoing. I figured I'd be capable to get a part-time agency job during I completed my degree, but it's been difficult. I've had to depend on my funds much additional than I expected.

I've done what I can to get by. This summer, I worked lengthy hours at a temp job; I've additionally worked as a instruction assistant at my university and done several voiceover work. However, none of this compares to what I used to acquire as a full-time employee alongside a elder title.

And although the rent in Budapest is mostly a lot lesser than in Edinburgh, my broad disbursal of living motionless feels beautiful high, particularly whenever it comes to groceries and regular expenses.

This awareness of financial precarity is difficult, and it's certainly not sustainable long-term. I'm fortunate to have several income from my renter in Edinburgh and funds from my years operating full-time — but there are motionless moments whenever I awareness extremely acutely conscious of the safety I remaining behind.

I'm making small prosperity now, but I'm happier than ever

I no longer awareness akin my activity defines me as a person. Sarah Catherine Cowie

Despite the erratic, unsteady, and low-paid nature of all these jobs — or perchance equal since of it — my outlook toward activity has changed.

For so many years, my job was all I talked and concerned about. I felt akin what I did defined me as a person.

My jobs now power not be as "stable" or consistent, but I no longer perspective my career as my identity. Instead, I think of my jobs as a sequence of experiences — several good, several bad — that have made my earth bigger and my existence richer (unfortunately, not literally).

My attitude toward spending has changed, too. In the past, I would expend prosperity on clothes, nights out, costly nail salons, and vacations without really thinking. Now I'm much additional frugal and intentional concerning my money, which I think is a fine thing.

Most of all, though, my move forced me out of a comfort area that was becoming increasingly small comfortable. Starting caller location new — and making my existence current work, equal amid the challenges — has shown me that I'm additional resilient than I always idea I could be.

I cognize now that no matter what gets thrown at me, I volition agreement alongside it somehow.

At times, I amazement how much easier my existence would be if I had stayed anywhere I was — and if I'm being honest, the answer is probably "a lot." But I am so glad I didn't choose the uncomplicated option.

I'm on track to alumnus next June, and I am enthusiastic concerning what lies ahead. I'm not certain yet whether I'll examine opportunities elsewhere in Europe or perchance move rear to the UK — but I anticipation that no matter anywhere I end up, I volition come back additional assured and self-assured than whenever I left.

Membedah Sistem Debian dari Dalam

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:30:25 +0700

Membedah Sistem Debian dari Dalam

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Gemini 4 Argon API Crash Course

support@mycoding.id (Freecodecamp.org) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:25 +0700

Gemini 4 Argon API Crash Course

Learn how to use Google's Gemini 4 Argon example through applicable JavaScript examples. This way walks through key betterment topics including API key setup, sending essential API requests, adjusting example thinking levels, managing multi-turn conversation former alongside communication IDs, and leveraging backdrop manner to asynchronously create a complete breakout game. The video wraps up alongside an discussion featuring Google DeepMind engineer Jack Wotherspoon, who shares insights on the model's reasoning capabilities, 3D multimodal demos, and imaginative penning strengths. Course created by @beau & @aniakubow. ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ – 00:00 Introduction and Overview – 00:59 What is Gemini 4 Argon? – 02:01 Setup API key, billing, and project – 03:05 Your archetypal request – 04:15 Thinking levels low versus high – 05:43 Conversations alongside former communication ID – 06:26 Background mode. Argon builds a game – 07:45 Interview alongside Google DeepMind Engineer Jack Wotherspoon – 10:06 Conclusion and wrap-up

The Junior Hiring Gap Your 2027 Marketing Budget Should Name

support@mycoding.id (Greg Jarboe) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:53 +0700

Treat your 2027 entry-level hires as their own prosperity row and not part of general headcount. The finest current payroll data shows that occupation in AI-exposed jobs is shifting, alongside small younger hires fairly than layoffs. Most promotion prosperity discussions are looking location else.

In July, I asserted that chief promotion officers should prosperity five functions alternatively of bequest conduit buckets. In September, I asserted that SEO and paid media managers rotate into board by proving AI pays for itself during keeping their teams intact. Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen, and Kevin Indig’s October preparedness memo, assistance parts of the two arguments.

They additionally disclose a gap.

What Stanford Measured, And What It Can’t Tell You

The Stanford Digital Economy Lab operating paper, revised Aug. 12, 2026, draws on anonymized ADP payroll records. The inspection example is a stable panel of firms alongside between 3.5 and 5 myriad workforce per month, operating through June 2026.

The header finding is that occupation of workers old 22 to 25 in AI-exposed occupations stands 19% below anywhere it would be if it had kept gait alongside their less-exposed peers. In raw terms, the two most exposed quintiles of young workers cut concerning 11% since November 2022, during the three least-exposed quintiles grew concerning 10%.

Experienced workers display no comparable gap. Every older age collection grew complete the identical period, by as much as 11% for workers old 35 to 40.

The scheme matters additional than the headline. The authors say the divergence plant chiefly through reduced hiring of young workers, and separations among young workers cut at smallest as much in the most exposed occupations as in the smallest exposed. That is the contrary of what relocation would imply. The declines concentration anywhere AI substitutes for individual tasks. Where AI complements workers, occupation is flat or rising, particularly for informed workers, and the adaptation shows up in employment, not in pay.

The authors of the Stanford document call the facts “early, descriptive indicators,” and say the activity does not evaluation a causal effect of AI. The form shrinks whenever they authority for education, from concerning -0.18 to -0.09 in their chief sample, and the smaller fig is important lone at the 10% level. Earlier versions of the document reported regression estimates of 13% and 16%, and the header measure has since changed, so the 19% should not be lined up against those numbers.

The document additionally measures occupations broadly. It reports no SEO or promotion figures.

My July Column Holds Up, With 1 Missing Line

In my former article, 2027 Marketing Budgets, I told CMOs to rebuild the prosperity about five functions, one of them individual judgement and editorial oversight. I additionally cited Gartner data showing labor rising from a average 21.9% to 24.5% of promotion budgets, equal although 43% of CMOs expected to cut labor spending.

Stanford’s document supports the editorial oversight prosperity line. Where AI complements workers, occupation holds or grows, particularly for informed workers. That describes the editors and strategists I asserted CMOs have to be capable to defend.

What the pillar did not say is who that labor prosperity pays for. My perspective is that the additional labor portion is going to informed people, during the seats that would have gone to 22- to 25-year-olds in exposed jobs are quietly remaining empty. Gartner doesn’t divided promotion labor by seniority, and Stanford doesn’t interrupt out marketing, so I can’t demonstrate it. But a prosperity that raises labor portion during freezing entry-level hiring has not told the CFO what it is funding, and I think that omission volition be the archetypal item a keen backing chief finds.

My September Column Needs A Sharper Test

In my another part concerning how an SEO or paid director can rotate into a director, I stated the managers most apt to move up are the ones who can demonstrate AI pays for itself during keeping their teams intact.

The Stanford document finds the adaptation happens through hiring and not through layoffs. A squad can be completely intact on the day a director presents the scorecard and motionless be shrinking, since the younger place that would have been filled this twelvemonth never was. “Intact” tells you who is motionless there. It says nothing concerning who was NOT hired.

If the entry-level pipeline narrows, the pond for the next generation of managers narrows alongside it. That is my inference, not item the document tests, and it is the part of this narrative I would observe most closely.

One additional reconciliation. The Harvard Business School study I cited in September looked at job postings through March 2025, so it is a petition signal. Stanford measures realized occupation through June 2026. They item the identical direction, but I would not add the 13% and the 19% together.

Kevin Indig Gives The Gap Somewhere To Land

Kevin Indig’s Growth Memo on preparedness 2027, summarized in a LinkedIn post, starts from a premise I share. Salaries, tools, and infrastructure are fixed costs, so the genuine prosperity inquiry is which capabilities to fund. Proven activity specified as specialized SEO, satisfied refreshes, and digital PR that earns citations gets complete funding, during unmeasurable bets get their own row according to judgment.

Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2026

The memo goes additional than the post. It adds a capped bucket for learning work, alongside one owner and a decision date, and argues that community activity needs a named owner and fixed weekly hours or it gets cut first. It suggests approximately 5% of the promotion prosperity for community, sometimes 10%.

His three measure layers additionally inhabit a gap in my September scorecard, which tracked hours saved, hours returned, outcomes, and cost. Kevin says to set targets for “exposure (AI citations, mentions, portion of voice), behavior (branded search, straightforward visits), and endeavor outcomes (pipeline),” and to peruse them together. If visibility rises during tagged hunt stays flat, he says, you have a allocation problem.

Put Stanford and Kevin side-by-side and a younger function looks different. The tasks I listed in September as most exposed, recurring reports, bulk heading tags, and bid adjustments, are the ones juniors used to study on. Those are my inferences concerning SEO, and Stanford did not test them. Community work, digital PR, and tracking anywhere AI engines cite you are the activity Kevin says needs an owner and hours, and they are much harder to hand to a model.

My stance is that a younger place built about that activity belongs in Kevin’s learning bucket, alongside a named owner, set hours, and a decision date. That is a stronger case to a CFO than keeping a place since it has continually existed.

How To Use This In Your 2027 Plan

Sort all younger project by what AI does to it. List what your 22- to 25-year-olds really do all week. Mark all project as one a example can substitute for or one that depends on judgement and relationships. Stanford did not study SEO, so run your own check, equal a duration of uncomplicated period tracking. It repeats the re-tagging stage from my July column, lone at the project level.

Write the entry-level function into the learning bucket. Give it a named owner, fixed weekly hours for community, off-site mentions and citation tracking, a quarterly review, and a decision date. If the function cannot name its weekly output in those terms, it is a place you are keeping out of habit.

Put a hiring row on the scorecard. Next to hours saved, hours returned, outcomes, and cost, display the seats you chose not to inhabit and why. Report Kevin’s three layers monthly beside it. When the CFO asks why labor portion is up, you can display what it buys and what it does not.

Where I Land

I went into this exercise assured that my July and September columns were broadly right, and they are. What I got incorrect was how small they stated concerning the group who never appear on a headcount report.

My stance for 2027 is that an intact squad is the incorrect approach. A squad you are motionless training is the improved measure. If AI pays for itself in your shop, several of the funds should display up as a younger place alongside a genuine job attached. Stanford calls its own data early, and so do I. But a prosperity approved this autumn volition assistance decide who is in the area whenever the next board are chosen, and I would fairly contend concerning that now than detect it later.

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Our best tips for using the iPhone Duo

support@mycoding.id (Allison Johnson) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0700

The Duo is an entirely new benevolent of iPhone, so it comes alongside a bit of a learning curve. That’s a untamed item to imagine, since the iPhone has had extremely few essential changes since its inception. But the Duo is built different. If you won the preorder lottery and managed to get your hands on one today, you’ll see what that means. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll endure track of the quantity buttons as you rotate the item around.

We’ve learned a few tricks complete the former week of flipping and folding the Duo as much as we could. Here are our favorite tips and hacks for newly minted Duo owners.

You can set inclination fastener on all display independently

I learned this one when person on Threads asked concerning it. Normally, I keep display inclination fastener enabled since I dislike it whenever everything flips unintentionally. But the Duo is built to be used in distinct orientations. So, throughout my archetypal week alongside the phone, I fair remaining it unlocked and didn’t think twice concerning it. But it turns out that if you fastener inclination on the external display to maintain your sanity, you can depart it unlocked for the inner screen, which you are much additional apt to desire to rotate. And equal alongside inclination locked on the shield screen, videos volition motionless rotate automatically if you prop it up in shelter mode.

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If you open the Control Center on the external screen, you can allow inclination fastener akin usual.

Screenshot: Apple via The Verge

You can automatically remap the quantity buttons to equivalent orientation

The iPhone Duo is a phone that you sometimes end up using upside down. It happened to us a lot; you flip open the screen, and for several logic it feels natural to rotate the display clockwise. But this orients the quantity controls so that the base clasp turns the quantity up and the top one turns it down. You can alter this setting. Go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Fixed Position Volume Controls and toggle it off. Now, whenever you rotate the inner display clockwise, you’ll media the top clasp to addition the volume. Why isn’t this the default behavior? Great question.

You can tap the Wi-Fi position icon to bring up Control Center

Now that Apple has three shortcuts mapped to swipes from the top of the iPhone display — rub from the top remaining for notifications, the center for Siri, and the top correct for Control Center — it’s uncomplicated to young female any you were going for on the archetypal try. All three shortcuts appear on the Duo as well, but there’s another way to drag up the Control Center — fair tap the new, unified Wi-Fi / power division position icon. This volition completely disclose the Control Center and develop the position icon into its autonomous parts. It’s a small thing, but item that makes the phone easier to use one-handed is greeted in my book.

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The Duo uses a new icon in the high correct to signify network position and such.

Screenshot: Apple via The Verge

You should enroll a bunch of fingers alongside Touch ID

You power be tempted to speed through setup and fair enroll one digit for Touch ID, but it’s value doing a few additional during you’re at it. Once again, the Duo is a phone you’re going to flip about and reorient by its nature. So during your right-hand thumb makes awareness for unlocking the shield screen, it requires an clumsy maneuver to use that digit formerly you’ve opened the phone and rotated it. Your left-hand indicator digit volition be nearer to the Touch ID sensor if you rotate the phone counterclockwise the way Apple CEO John Ternus apparently intended. And it appears silly, but enrolling your right-hand pinky is a fine move for those occasions whenever you rotate the inner display clockwise.

You can observe a video and open an app below it in picture orientation, but it’s complicated

The iPhone Duo extremely much lone wants you to multitask alongside two apps flank by flank in landscape manner using the inner screen. There’s no opening resizing, no additional apps. And if you rotate the phone to picture orientation, one of those apps flies distant and you’re downward to one. But there is technically a way to get two apps going in this inclination — it’s fair wonky.

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Start playing a video in an app akin Prime Video, afterward tap the picture-in-picture (PiP) icon to move it to a PiP window. Swipe distant to get to the homescreen, open another app, afterward rotate the phone to portrait. An icon to stack the video on top of the open app volition appear in the PiP window.

You power desire a PopSocket

I picked up a PopSocket habit during using the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and it makes a enormous difference whenever you’re holding specified a dense phone for a lengthy time. It’s particularly appealing on the Pro Fold and the Duo since they the two have magnets built into the rear panel. You can thwack it onto the phone whenever you desire it and fair obtain it off whenever you don’t. The MagSafe PopSocket I’ve been using alongside the Duo has been additional than powerful adequate to assistance the phone’s weight.

If you’re picking up a Duo today and detect a neat trick as you use your new phone, autumn it in the comments below. We’re all learning together here.

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Apple revives the original iPod as an Apple Music easter egg

support@mycoding.id (Stevie Bonifield) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:58:43 +0700

Stevie Bonifield

is a news author covering all things person tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag penning news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

If you’ve been emotion nostalgic for your old iPod, you can caput complete to Apple Music’s 404 page to perform music on a virtual recreation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It’s appropriately stocked alongside music from the first 2000s, akin Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” or Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” The iPod seems to pop up on any non-existent Apple Music page, so you can discover it by fair adding a cord of random alphabet following the chief Apple Music URL.

The iPod’s apt an easter egg for the device’s 25th anniversary on Friday. Apple announced the first iPod on October 23rd, 2001 for $399. iPods were a center pillar at Apple for 20 years until they were eventually discontinued in 2022, but they’ve been making a comeback complete additional latest years.

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After 6 years in Barcelona, I realized one of the 'worst' parts of living here was actually making me happier

support@mycoding.id (Jordan Mautner) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:55:01 +0700

As an American living in Spain, I struggled to modify to the country's civilization and schedules at first. Jordan Mautner

I had 30 minutes remaining on my lunch interrupt — fair adequate period to compression in a new errand before I had to get rear to work. I had lone lately moved to Barcelona, and I really needed to get an additional key made for my new roommate.

I typed "locksmith" into Google Maps and rushed out the door. I zigzagged through the narrow streets of my neighborhood trying to discover the place. I checked my observe and saw I lone had 20 minutes.

I picked up my gait and eventually arrived at the small shop. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and reached for the door, but it wouldn't budge.

I peeked in through the opening and saw no one. I knocked multiple times, and alongside all knock, I was becoming additional frustrated, knowing I was losing precious time.

I opened Google Maps again to appearance up the store's phone figure and saw its hours. I was dumbfounded; the shop was open from 9 a.m. to 2 pm and afterward again from 5 to 8 p.m.

I was so furious — I had wasted my lunch interrupt and didn't equal accomplish what I set out to do.

At first, I idea Spain was making me small productive

On Sunday, the streets frequently awareness beautiful quiet. Jordan Mautner

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was used to being capable to get beautiful much item done at nearly any period of day. Between 24-hour supermarkets and medicinal offices alongside evening and weekend hours, everything there seemed built about convenience.

In Barcelona, though, remainder seems to obtain priority. Many stores near during midday for a "siesta" or "nap" break, and a lot of businesses are not open on Sundays.

At first, I established it durable to modify to the customary hours for many businesses in Barcelona. Jordan Mautner

This new way of existence meant I had to scheme a lot additional before trying to complete my to-do list. I couldn't merely compression in errands whenever they were convenient for me; I had to activity about the schedules of those about me.

While living in LA, my favorite period to do market buying was on Sunday. I could inhabit up my fridge and prepared for the week ahead, but that was no longer imaginable in Barcelona, as many big supermarkets are closed on Sundays.

During my first twelvemonth in Spain, I'd frequently awaken up lazily on Sunday mornings and roam complete to the supermarket, lone to see the doors closed, and I'd be hit alongside a actuality inspect period and period again.

I wasn't living in the United States anymore, but I couldn't appear to tremble off the faster gait of living I was acquainted to rear in LA. I was finding it difficult to modify and was concerned that I would rotate into small productive since I couldn't get things done on my time.

I realized I had to modify my agenda in command to clasp the local culture. Jordan Mautner

Soon, I realized that if I couldn't alter the schedule, I had to commencement adjusting to it. I started splitting errands throughout the week whenever I knew places would be open, alternatively of trying to get them done all at once.

Giving myself area between these tasks really helped me to be small forgetful and additional efficient. I had to concentration on one item at a time, which helped me be additional present.

In time, I realized it was doing the opposite

Now, I bask my breaks alternatively of emotion pressured to optimize them. Jordan Mautner

Now that I've been in Spain for concerning six years, I've gotten used to my new routines. And, in time, I established myself emotion small annoyed by the constricted hours — I've really begun to bask them.

For one, I felt small force to optimize all of my liberated time.

My lunch breaks became concerning savoring my meal and really taking a break, sometimes study a few chapters in a publish or taking a stroll in the park. Sundays became concerning sleeping in, enjoying period alongside my family, taking a lengthy stroll alongside my dog, and preparing for the week onward merely by fair having a relaxing afternoon.

Even although it wasn't necessarily my choice to halt doing errands whenever I pleased, it forced me to dilatory down. I started emotion calmer and small stressed, and surprisingly, equal additional productive.

I became additional mindful of how I spent my period and allowed myself moments to really rest, which gave me additional energy to get things done. I motionless get everything on my to-do catalog completed; it fair power obtain a small longer.

And before I depart my apartment, I continually create certain to inspect the shop hours fair in case.

Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:41:10 +0700

In 2025, homes paid 17.8¢ a kilowatt-hour at investor-owned utilities, 14.5¢ at public utilities and 14.1¢ at co-ops. Since 2020, investor-owned prices rosy 34% and community ones 19%, against 24% inflation.

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Investor-owned 67% of homes paid 12 to 20 cents, and 11% paid 30 cents or more.

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Investor-owned prices rosy faster than nonprofit (public and co-op) prices in 38 of the 48 states alongside both: investor-owned against nonprofit.

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New York State Electric & Gas, NY+97%
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), CA+79%
Potomac Electric Power, DC+76%
Rochester Gas & Electric, NY+75%
Southern California Edison (SCE), CA+73%
Tampa Electric, FL+72%
Ameren Illinois, IL+72%
Central Maine Power, ME+69%
Baltimore Gas & Electric, MD+67%
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), CA+59%
Appalachian Power (AEP), VA+59%
Puget Sound Energy, WA+57%
National Grid (Niagara Mohawk), NY+57%
Duke Energy Ohio, OH+52%
Portland General Electric, OR+50%
AEP Ohio, OH+50%
PSO (AEP), OK+50%
Potomac Electric Power, MD+49%
Delmarva Power, DE+48%
Duquesne Light, PA+46%

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About the data

Public power is average anywhere power is cheap, so we additionally compared utilities inside all state. Investor-owned prices rosy faster in 38 of 48 states.
Most of the gap opened from 2020 to 2023, during the energy cost spike: 25% at investor-owned utilities, 11% at community utilities and co-ops. Before and since, the two rosy at concerning the identical pace.
After inflation, investor-owned prices rosy 7.9%. Public and co-op prices cut 4.3%.
Co-op homes have the highest bills, $159 a duration in 2025, since they use the most power.
Homes that buy power from a retailing provider aren't in the investor-owned figures. Counting them, prices on investor-owned lines rosy 36%.
Price is what homes paid divided by the kilowatt-hours they used, from EIA's annual study of utilities. Federal utilities and the smallest ones are remaining out.
The data shows what homes paid, not why. Investor-owned utilities acquire a come back for shareholders on what they build. Public utilities and co-ops have no shareholders. See the rate cases for increases utilities are asking for now.

Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:19:42 +0700

Your phone is concerning to halt being yours.

70 days until lockdown

Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, volition block all Android app whose developer hasn't registered alongside Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed complete authorities ID.

Every app and all device, worldwide, alongside no opt-out.

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What Google is doing

In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting in 2027, every Android app developer must enroll centrally alongside Google before their application can be installed on any device. Not fair Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for individual use. Independent developers, chapel and community groups, and hobbyists alike volition all be icy out of being capable to create and allocate their software.

Registration requires:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google's Terms and Conditions
Surrendering your government-issued identification
Providing evidence of your personal signing key
Listing all current and all forthcoming use identifiers

If a developer does not comply, their apps get silently blocked on all Android equipment worldwide.

Who this hurts

You

You bought an Android phone since Google told you it was open. You could instal what you wanted, and that was the deal.

Google is now rewriting that deal, retroactively, on hardware you already own. After the update lands, you can lone run application that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for.

Independent developers

A teenager's archetypal app, a volunteer's privacy tool, or a company's confidential inner beta. It doesn't matter. In 2027, none of these can be installed without Google's blessing.

F-Droid, residence to thousands of liberated and open-source Android apps, has called this an "existential" threat. Cory Doctorow calls it "Darth Android".

Governments & civic society

Google has a documented track record of complying whenever authoritarian regimes petition app removals. With this program, the application that runs your country's institutions volition be at the pleasance of a sole unaccountable abroad corporation.

The EFF calls app gatekeeping "an ever-expanding pathway to net censorship."

Google's "escape hatch" is a trap door

Google says "power users" can "still install" unverified apps. Here's what that actually looks like:

Delve into System Settings, discover About Phone
Tap the build figure seven times to allow Developer Mode
Dismiss scare screens concerning coercion
Enter your PIN
Restart the device
Wait 24 hours
Come back, disregard additional scare screens
Pick "allow temporarily" (7 days) or "allow indefinitely"
Confirm, again, that you comprehend "the risks"

Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing application on a equipment you own.

Worse: this stream runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can alter it, tighten it, or slay it at any time, alongside no OS update required and no consent needed.

This is bigger than Android

If Google can retroactively fastener downward billions of devices that were sold as open platforms, all hardware manufacturer on the earth is watching.

The regulation being established: the business that made your equipment gets to decide, following you've bought it, what application you're allowed to run. In software, this is called a "rug pull"; but at smallest you could continually instal competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a sole unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist.

Android's openness was never fair a feature. It was the promise that distinguished it from iPhone. Millions chose Android for exactly that reason. Google is now revoking that commitment unilaterally, on devices already in people's pockets, since they've decided they have adequate market control and regulatory grasp to get distant alongside it.

Ars Technica: "Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy."

But wait, isn't this...

"...just concerning security?"

The safety rationale is a smokescreen. Google Play Protect already scans for malware autonomous of developer identity. Requiring a authorities ID doesn't create code safer. It makes developers identifiable and controllable. Malware authors can register. Indie developers and dissidents frequently can't. The EFF is blunt: identity-based gatekeeping is a censorship tool, not a safety one.

"...still sideloading if you use the advanced flow?"

Nine steps, 24-hour wait, buried in Developer Options, delivered through a proprietary assistance that Google can revoke whenever they want. That's not sideloading. That's a deterrence mechanism built to justify nearly nobody completes it. And since it runs through Play Services fairly than the OS, Google can tighten or slay it silently.

"...only a issue if you have item to hide?"

Whistleblowers, journalists, and activists under authoritarian governments volition be the archetypal victims. People in family abuse situations are next. All these groups have lawful reasons to allocate or use application without putting their lawful character in a Google database. Anonymous open-source contribution is a tradition older than Google itself. This guideline ends it on Android.

"...the identical item Apple does?"

Apple has been a partitioned storyline from day one. People chose Android because it was different. "Apple does it too" is a competition to the base and a feeble tu quoque argument. And under regulatory force (the EU's Digital Markets Act), equal Apple is being forced to open up. Google is moving in the contrary direction: attempting to additional entrench its gatekeeping status.

"...just $25 and several paperwork?"

Maybe, if you're a developer in the US alongside a credit cardstock and a driver's license. Try being a pupil in sub-Saharan Africa, or a dissident in Myanmar, or a unpaid maintaining a community health app. The disbursal isn't lone financial: you're surrendering authorities ID and evidence of your signing keys to a business that routinely complies alongside authorities demands to eliminate apps and disclose developers.

Fight back

Everyone

Install F-Droid on all Android equipment you own. Alternative stores lone last if group really use them.
Contact your regulators. Regulators worldwide are genuinely concerned concerning monopolies and the centralization of power in the tech sector, and desire to comprehend immediately from individuals who are affected and concerned.
Share this page. Link to keepandroidopen.org everywhere.
Push rear on astroturfers. The "well, actually..." assemblage is out in force. Don't let them set the narrative.
Sign the change.org petition and associate the complete 100,000 signatories who have made their voices heard.
Read and portion our open letter
Tell Google what you think of this through their own developer verification survey (for all the fine that volition do).

Developers

Do not sign up. Don't associate the program by signing up for the Android Developer Console and agreeing to their irrevocable Terms and Conditions. Don't verify your identity. Don't perform ball.

Google's scheme lone plant if developers comply. Don't.

Talk another developers and organizations out of signing up.
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Google employees

If you cognize item concerning the program's specialized implementation or inner rationale, communication tips@keepandroidopen.org from a non-work device and a non-Gmail account. Strict confidence guaranteed.

All those opposed…

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What they're saying

Tech press

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"
How-To Geek

"F-Droid says Google's new sideloading restrictions volition slay the project"
Ars Technica

"Google volition create you delay 24 hours to sideload Android apps"
How-To Geek

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"
Android Headlines

"Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy"
Ars Technica

"Google says it's making Android sideloading 'high-friction' to improved notify users concerning possible risks"
XDA Developers

"Google volition verify Android developers distributing apps exterior the Play store"
The Verge

"Google's New Developer Rules Threaten to End the F-Droid Open-Source App Store"
How-To Geek

"'Keep Android Open' Movement Challenges Google's Developer Verification Rule"
Open Source For U

"Over 67 groups encourage the business to autumn ID checks for apps distributed exterior Play"
The Register

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"
How-To Geek

"F-Droid project threatened by Google's new dev registration rules"
Bleeping Computer

"Google volition necessitate developer verification to instal Android apps, including sideloading"
9to5Google

"Google volition necessitate developer verification for Android apps exterior the Play Store"
TechCrunch

"Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register"
The Register

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"
Tom's Guide

"Android, Epic, and What's Really Behind Google's 'Existential' Threat to F-Droid"
Slashdot

"Android Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google's New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishy"
It's FOSS News

"Google's Android developer verification program draws pushback"
InfoWorld

"Open letter warns mandatory registration 'threatens innovation, competition, privacy and person freedom'"
Infosecurity Magazine

"Google plans to obstacle side-loading akin Apple, declaring war on Android freedom"
Tuta Blog

"Google Clamps downward On Android's Openness"
Internet Freedom Foundation (India)

"An 'existential' danger to substitute app stores"
The New Stack

"Google's Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid"
Techdirt

"Sideloading is deceased for all intents and purposes. The Android you cognize and affection is gradually disappearing."
Android Police

"This volition rub out Android as an genuine substitute to Apple's mobile OS offerings."
Hackaday

"Android app shop provider Aptoide hits Google alongside caller lawsuit alleging monopoly and anticompetitive chokehold"
Benzinga

"Google's New Developer ID Rule Could Harm F-Droid"
Reclaim The Net

"Keep Android Open"
Linux Magazine

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"
Android Headlines

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"
How-To Geek

"Google's developer registration 'decree' method the end for substitute app stores"
Cybernews

"Google is restricting one of Android's most crucial features, and users are outraged"
SlashGear

"F-Droid Slams Google for Misleading Users About Android's App Verification"
Android Headlines

"Resistance to Google's Android verification grows among developers"
Techzine EU

"Keep Android Open – Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Google"
heise online

"Google's new developer rules could endanger sideloading and F-Droid's future"
Gizmochina

"It efficiently makes the Play Store a monopoly without really mandating that it is a monopoly."
I-Programmer

"Google's new ID requirements could demolish autonomous app stores"
TechSpot

"Open-Source Android Apps Threatened by Google's New Policy"
Datamation

"Google's dev registration scheme 'will end the F-Droid project'"
The Register

"We all cognize that's a burden of bullshit. Adding a goddamn 24-hour waiting duration is batshit insanity."
Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet"
MakeUseOf

"Open-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google's New Decree"
TechRepublic

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"
How-To Geek

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"
Tom's Guide

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"
How-To Geek

"F-Droid says Google's new sideloading restrictions volition slay the project"
Ars Technica

"Google volition create you delay 24 hours to sideload Android apps"
How-To Geek

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"
Android Headlines

"Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy"
Ars Technica

"Google says it's making Android sideloading 'high-friction' to improved notify users concerning possible risks"
XDA Developers

"Google volition verify Android developers distributing apps exterior the Play store"
The Verge

"Google's New Developer Rules Threaten to End the F-Droid Open-Source App Store"
How-To Geek

"'Keep Android Open' Movement Challenges Google's Developer Verification Rule"
Open Source For U

"Over 67 groups encourage the business to autumn ID checks for apps distributed exterior Play"
The Register

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"
How-To Geek

"F-Droid project threatened by Google's new dev registration rules"
Bleeping Computer

"Google volition necessitate developer verification to instal Android apps, including sideloading"
9to5Google

"Google volition necessitate developer verification for Android apps exterior the Play Store"
TechCrunch

"Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register"
The Register

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"
Tom's Guide

"Android, Epic, and What's Really Behind Google's 'Existential' Threat to F-Droid"
Slashdot

"Android Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google's New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishy"
It's FOSS News

"Google's Android developer verification program draws pushback"
InfoWorld

"Open letter warns mandatory registration 'threatens innovation, competition, privacy and person freedom'"
Infosecurity Magazine

"Google plans to obstacle side-loading akin Apple, declaring war on Android freedom"
Tuta Blog

"Google Clamps downward On Android's Openness"
Internet Freedom Foundation (India)

"An 'existential' danger to substitute app stores"
The New Stack

"Google's Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid"
Techdirt

"Sideloading is deceased for all intents and purposes. The Android you cognize and affection is gradually disappearing."
Android Police

"This volition rub out Android as an genuine substitute to Apple's mobile OS offerings."
Hackaday

"Android app shop provider Aptoide hits Google alongside caller lawsuit alleging monopoly and anticompetitive chokehold"
Benzinga

"Google's New Developer ID Rule Could Harm F-Droid"
Reclaim The Net

"Keep Android Open"
Linux Magazine

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"
Android Headlines

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"
How-To Geek

"Google's developer registration 'decree' method the end for substitute app stores"
Cybernews

"Google is restricting one of Android's most crucial features, and users are outraged"
SlashGear

"F-Droid Slams Google for Misleading Users About Android's App Verification"
Android Headlines

"Resistance to Google's Android verification grows among developers"
Techzine EU

"Keep Android Open – Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Google"
heise online

"Google's new developer rules could endanger sideloading and F-Droid's future"
Gizmochina

"It efficiently makes the Play Store a monopoly without really mandating that it is a monopoly."
I-Programmer

"Google's new ID requirements could demolish autonomous app stores"
TechSpot

"Open-Source Android Apps Threatened by Google's New Policy"
Datamation

"Google's dev registration scheme 'will end the F-Droid project'"
The Register

"We all cognize that's a burden of bullshit. Adding a goddamn 24-hour waiting duration is batshit insanity."
Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet"
MakeUseOf

"Open-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google's New Decree"
TechRepublic

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"
How-To Geek

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"
Tom's Guide

Editorials & analysis

"The necessity extends Google's gatekeeping authority from its own Play Store to all substitute allocation conduit on Android."
LLM Advocates

"Freedom of choice is being reframed as a 'security risk.'"
Newsfangled

"This is not concerning protecting users. This is concerning control. This is concerning Google cutting out the final remaining artery of independence in Android."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google's move is not credibly concerning 'security,' but really concerning consolidating power and tightening authority complete a formerly open ecosystem."
Techdirt

"Android is no longer the scrappy rebel. It's fair another empire tightening the drawbridge."
Newsfangled

"This is a form of malicious compliance alongside the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Destroying F-Droid isn't several 'oops.' It's the mission. It's Google eventually cutting the final remaining escape path and locking all sole person inner their store."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google isn't certifying apps, they're certifying developers. This implies that the business can somehow foretell whether a developer volition do item malicious in the future."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android is not open anymore. It's not an alternative. It's not equal trying. It's iOS alongside ads and spyware bolted on."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google has announced that they are altering the deal. And telling us that we should adore that they don't alter it further. Block this guideline alter now before they cover their chilly metal element hands about our necks."
Jesse Wilson, PublicObject.com

"One US company is placing itself between all Android developer and all Android person on earth."
PixelUnion

"Sideloading, a longstanding pillar of Android's openness, is now being marginalized, placing the Android phase nearer to the walled-garden method of Apple's iOS."
Purism

"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."
Tuta Blog

"Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces assortment in the application ecosystem and concentrates power in ample established players."
Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Android does not fair notify anymore. It enforces."
Youssef Mabrouk, Ostorlab

"There is additionally the extremely genuine possible that Google volition leak your character alongside the outcome that any apps alongside governmental implications could outcome in persecution and worse."
I-Programmer

"This guideline represents a theatrical departure from Android's decades-old tradition of openness, in which developers could build and portion apps openly without archetypal submitting to a centralized authority."
Biometric Update

"What pupil is going to upload their passport to a trillion-dollar surveillance company fair to portion their weekend project?"
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Although Google's assertion is that this is for 'security', it does not forestall the regular custom of scammers purchasing up existing verified developer accounts."
Maya Posch, Hackaday

"This is not a developer document sign-up. This is thorough surveillance of the application betterment ecosystem."
PixelUnion

"Google's narrative that this move is motivated by safety is evidently bullshit. The idea that Google can enhance Android's safety by certifying developers, fairly than code, is apparent bullshit."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android wasn't expected to be 'safe.' It was expected to be free."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Once there is no specified item as 'sideloading', there's practically no difference between iOS and Android. I see no logic to buy Android complete iOS at this point."
Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Google has announced what can lone be described as a death attack to the open ecosystem that made Android. Under the guise of 'security,' Google is implementing draconian developer verification requirements."
AndroidSage

"The projected Android Developer Verification program isn't a safety update; it's a slay toggle for the open ecosystem."
Hillary Keverenge, Tech-ish Kenya

"Google has not removed Android's openness, but it is turning openness from a default correct into a conditional, attributable, and tiered capability."
MerchMindAI

"Developers from sanctioned countries or those without Google Play admission cannot verify themselves. This creates systemic bias against developers according to birthplace fairly than conduct."
agnostic-apollo (Termux developer), GitHub

"Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide gives Google newfound powers to entirely disable any app it wants."
Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Google is turning sideloading from a correct into a approval slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise."
Reclaim The Net

"Google's attempts to create Android 'more secure' are, in fact, expanding the hazard for Android users. The additional conflict you current in the name of security, the additional apt users volition attempt to bypass safety completely."
Ken Buckler, Enterprise Management Associates

"The $25 isn't the genuine cost. The chilling consequence is. Submitting authorities ID to Google is a non-starter for pseudonymous contributors and privacy researchers."
Arafat Alim, DEV Community

"Innovation may be the biggest casualty in all of this. This new regulation erodes your correct to create informed decisions concerning your own devices."
MakeUseOf

"This could rotate Google into the productive gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices."
It's FOSS News

"The necessity extends Google's gatekeeping authority from its own Play Store to all substitute allocation conduit on Android."
LLM Advocates

"Freedom of choice is being reframed as a 'security risk.'"
Newsfangled

"This is not concerning protecting users. This is concerning control. This is concerning Google cutting out the final remaining artery of independence in Android."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google's move is not credibly concerning 'security,' but really concerning consolidating power and tightening authority complete a formerly open ecosystem."
Techdirt

"Android is no longer the scrappy rebel. It's fair another empire tightening the drawbridge."
Newsfangled

"This is a form of malicious compliance alongside the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Destroying F-Droid isn't several 'oops.' It's the mission. It's Google eventually cutting the final remaining escape path and locking all sole person inner their store."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google isn't certifying apps, they're certifying developers. This implies that the business can somehow foretell whether a developer volition do item malicious in the future."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android is not open anymore. It's not an alternative. It's not equal trying. It's iOS alongside ads and spyware bolted on."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google has announced that they are altering the deal. And telling us that we should adore that they don't alter it further. Block this guideline alter now before they cover their chilly metal element hands about our necks."
Jesse Wilson, PublicObject.com

"One US company is placing itself between all Android developer and all Android person on earth."
PixelUnion

"Sideloading, a longstanding pillar of Android's openness, is now being marginalized, placing the Android phase nearer to the walled-garden method of Apple's iOS."
Purism

"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."
Tuta Blog

"Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces assortment in the application ecosystem and concentrates power in ample established players."
Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Android does not fair notify anymore. It enforces."
Youssef Mabrouk, Ostorlab

"There is additionally the extremely genuine possible that Google volition leak your character alongside the outcome that any apps alongside governmental implications could outcome in persecution and worse."
I-Programmer

"This guideline represents a theatrical departure from Android's decades-old tradition of openness, in which developers could build and portion apps openly without archetypal submitting to a centralized authority."
Biometric Update

"What pupil is going to upload their passport to a trillion-dollar surveillance company fair to portion their weekend project?"
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Although Google's assertion is that this is for 'security', it does not forestall the regular custom of scammers purchasing up existing verified developer accounts."
Maya Posch, Hackaday

"This is not a developer document sign-up. This is thorough surveillance of the application betterment ecosystem."
PixelUnion

"Google's narrative that this move is motivated by safety is evidently bullshit. The idea that Google can enhance Android's safety by certifying developers, fairly than code, is apparent bullshit."
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android wasn't expected to be 'safe.' It was expected to be free."
fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Once there is no specified item as 'sideloading', there's practically no difference between iOS and Android. I see no logic to buy Android complete iOS at this point."
Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Google has announced what can lone be described as a death attack to the open ecosystem that made Android. Under the guise of 'security,' Google is implementing draconian developer verification requirements."
AndroidSage

"The projected Android Developer Verification program isn't a safety update; it's a slay toggle for the open ecosystem."
Hillary Keverenge, Tech-ish Kenya

"Google has not removed Android's openness, but it is turning openness from a default correct into a conditional, attributable, and tiered capability."
MerchMindAI

"Developers from sanctioned countries or those without Google Play admission cannot verify themselves. This creates systemic bias against developers according to birthplace fairly than conduct."
agnostic-apollo (Termux developer), GitHub

"Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide gives Google newfound powers to entirely disable any app it wants."
Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Google is turning sideloading from a correct into a approval slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise."
Reclaim The Net

"Google's attempts to create Android 'more secure' are, in fact, expanding the hazard for Android users. The additional conflict you current in the name of security, the additional apt users volition attempt to bypass safety completely."
Ken Buckler, Enterprise Management Associates

"The $25 isn't the genuine cost. The chilling consequence is. Submitting authorities ID to Google is a non-starter for pseudonymous contributors and privacy researchers."
Arafat Alim, DEV Community

"Innovation may be the biggest casualty in all of this. This new regulation erodes your correct to create informed decisions concerning your own devices."
MakeUseOf

"This could rotate Google into the productive gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices."
It's FOSS News

Organizations & open letters

"Unilaterally consolidating power to endorse application into the hands of a sole unaccountable company is a danger to digital sovereignty everywhere."
Nextcloud

"A centralized earth registration scheme for Android volition inevitably chill this work. Those communities are apt to autumn out of evolving for Android altogether."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"Google's abusive method to the Android functioning scheme has lone gotten worse in latest years. Software liberty is sorely lacking in the 'computers in our pockets' we call division phones."
Free Software Foundation

"This is a profound change, one that shatters the complete premise of the Android ecosystem, lengthy regarded as the antithesis of the closed Apple ecosystem."
AdGuard

"While Android used to be praised for its liberty and independence, it volition rotate into a closed shop fair akin Apple."
Tuta

"This extends Google's gatekeeping authority beyond its own market into allocation channels anywhere it has no lawful operational role."
Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"Independent application allocation on Android volition now necessitate Google's definitive permission."
AdGuard

"If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree volition end the F-Droid project and another free/open origin app allocation sources as we cognize them today."
F-Droid

"Developers who choose not to use Google's services should not be forced to enroll with, and present to the judgement of, Google."
Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"We are operating out of period until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices."
F-Droid

"Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship."
ACLU

"Google Play itself has often hosted malware, proving that company gatekeeping doesn't justify person protection."
F-Droid

"Remember: It's your phone, your data, your freedom. Don't let Google obtain it away."
Tuta

"Google is turning Android into a partitioned storyline monopoly. We must forestall it."
Osservatorio Nessuno

"Google volition cut off autonomous developers to Android if they do not enroll alongside Google first. This volition slay autonomous platforms akin F-Droid and seriously impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android."
KDE

"Changes would enforce barriers to admission for idiosyncratic developers, small teams and unpaid projects by imposing fees, character checks and conditions that may not align alongside the principles of an open ecosystem."
Infosecurity Magazine

"Ultimately, Google's scheme volition halt you from owning your Android phone."
Tuta

"When you set up a gate, you invitation authorities to use it to obstacle things they don't like. And whenever you build a database, you invitation governments to try to get access."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"There are governments who power extremely much akin to cognize the names of the developers of those applications so that they can go following them."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We unequivocally advise against signing up for this program, now or ever."
F-Droid Open Letter

"Centralised, intransparent safety architectures certainly assistance safe monetization and the market by locking out competitors."
Nextcloud

"Nearly 50 organizations published an open letter opposing what they characterize as a 'kill toggle for the open ecosystem.'"
Tech-ish Kenya

"The European Pirate Party called for proportionate and transparent measures that justify safety without restricting innovation, limiting anonymity, or distorting competition."
European Pirate Party

"Google's developer verification guideline creates a centralized database, controlled by a sole corporation, containing the real-world character of all individual who writes application for Android."
Brave

"This intrusion of privacy of developers is not fair an overreach of Google's authority complete Android, but additionally jeopardizes developer safety."
Software Freedom Conservancy

"A guideline that forces all Android developer to hand their character to Google, despite of whether they use Google's services, makes Android a less-open and less-private platform."
Brave

"MEP Christel Schaldemose formally questioned whether Google's mandatory chief registration is compatible alongside the Digital Markets Act."
European Parliament

"Verification fair confirms who's rearward the app, it doesn't justify spotless code or regulation out malicious behavior."
AdGuard

"Forcing application creators into a centralized registration scheme is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to enroll alongside a chief authority."
F-Droid

"Developers who build privacy-first browsers, encrypted messaging apps, VPNs, Tor-based application or tools for journalists and activists would be required to upload authorities ID to Google. These developers are improbable to rely Google and power halt evolving for Android."
Brave

"For developers construction tools specifically designed to defend person privacy, being forced to surrender their own individual data as a precondition for allocation is deeply contradictory."
AdGuard

"Android's biggest power has continually been its openness. That's what attracted developers and users in the archetypal place."
AdGuard

"Unilaterally consolidating power to endorse application into the hands of a sole unaccountable company is a danger to digital sovereignty everywhere."
Nextcloud

"A centralized earth registration scheme for Android volition inevitably chill this work. Those communities are apt to autumn out of evolving for Android altogether."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"Google's abusive method to the Android functioning scheme has lone gotten worse in latest years. Software liberty is sorely lacking in the 'computers in our pockets' we call division phones."
Free Software Foundation

"This is a profound change, one that shatters the complete premise of the Android ecosystem, lengthy regarded as the antithesis of the closed Apple ecosystem."
AdGuard

"While Android used to be praised for its liberty and independence, it volition rotate into a closed shop fair akin Apple."
Tuta

"This extends Google's gatekeeping authority beyond its own market into allocation channels anywhere it has no lawful operational role."
Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"Independent application allocation on Android volition now necessitate Google's definitive permission."
AdGuard

"If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree volition end the F-Droid project and another free/open origin app allocation sources as we cognize them today."
F-Droid

"Developers who choose not to use Google's services should not be forced to enroll with, and present to the judgement of, Google."
Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"We are operating out of period until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices."
F-Droid

"Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship."
ACLU

"Google Play itself has often hosted malware, proving that company gatekeeping doesn't justify person protection."
F-Droid

"Remember: It's your phone, your data, your freedom. Don't let Google obtain it away."
Tuta

"Google is turning Android into a partitioned storyline monopoly. We must forestall it."
Osservatorio Nessuno

"Google volition cut off autonomous developers to Android if they do not enroll alongside Google first. This volition slay autonomous platforms akin F-Droid and seriously impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android."
KDE

"Changes would enforce barriers to admission for idiosyncratic developers, small teams and unpaid projects by imposing fees, character checks and conditions that may not align alongside the principles of an open ecosystem."
Infosecurity Magazine

"Ultimately, Google's scheme volition halt you from owning your Android phone."
Tuta

"When you set up a gate, you invitation authorities to use it to obstacle things they don't like. And whenever you build a database, you invitation governments to try to get access."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"There are governments who power extremely much akin to cognize the names of the developers of those applications so that they can go following them."
Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We unequivocally advise against signing up for this program, now or ever."
F-Droid Open Letter

"Centralised, intransparent safety architectures certainly assistance safe monetization and the market by locking out competitors."
Nextcloud

"Nearly 50 organizations published an open letter opposing what they characterize as a 'kill toggle for the open ecosystem.'"
Tech-ish Kenya

"The European Pirate Party called for proportionate and transparent measures that justify safety without restricting innovation, limiting anonymity, or distorting competition."
European Pirate Party

"Google's developer verification guideline creates a centralized database, controlled by a sole corporation, containing the real-world character of all individual who writes application for Android."
Brave

"This intrusion of privacy of developers is not fair an overreach of Google's authority complete Android, but additionally jeopardizes developer safety."
Software Freedom Conservancy

"A guideline that forces all Android developer to hand their character to Google, despite of whether they use Google's services, makes Android a less-open and less-private platform."
Brave

"MEP Christel Schaldemose formally questioned whether Google's mandatory chief registration is compatible alongside the Digital Markets Act."
European Parliament

"Verification fair confirms who's rearward the app, it doesn't justify spotless code or regulation out malicious behavior."
AdGuard

"Forcing application creators into a centralized registration scheme is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to enroll alongside a chief authority."
F-Droid

"Developers who build privacy-first browsers, encrypted messaging apps, VPNs, Tor-based application or tools for journalists and activists would be required to upload authorities ID to Google. These developers are improbable to rely Google and power halt evolving for Android."
Brave

"For developers construction tools specifically designed to defend person privacy, being forced to surrender their own individual data as a precondition for allocation is deeply contradictory."
AdGuard

"Android's biggest power has continually been its openness. That's what attracted developers and users in the archetypal place."
AdGuard

YouTubers & creators

"The widely-circulated narrative that Google already backed downward from this is false. They didn't, and that misunderstanding may be the most hazardous part of the narrative correct now."
Techlore – YouTube

"Developers of privacy-focused tools and emulators volition have to dox themselves, making them susceptible to authorities agencies or lawful action."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"If I'm going to be trapped in a partitioned storyline anyway, I'll obtain the one that's built properly."
fireborn – Blog

"This is an iPhone now. I didn't desire to buy an iPhone. I use Android since it gives me freedom. If you are not going to provision me liberty alongside my computer, afterward why would I buy your material anymore?"
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Every sole period a business takes distant your capability to do what you desire alongside what you bought and paid for, all sole period they twist a knife, we have to item it out."
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Your device, their rules. The phone you bought and paid for is no longer really yours."
Tuta Blog – Blog

"Google keeps getting in as much difficulty as Apple whenever Google is fractional evil and Apple is complete evil. So there are likely group inner Google saying, 'Why not fair go complete evil?'"
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Google is removing the one key advantage Android has complete iOS."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"That's not openness. That is control."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"When you download applications, you've merely installed an application. I don't desire to use words akin 'sideload.'"
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Follow the money. Google makes prosperity whenever apps are downloaded from its store. Google has entirely forgotten concerning its before business motto: Don't be evil."
Tuta Blog – Blog

"A earth anywhere two tech companies from the identical city that dominate all of our mobile devices the two necessitate centralized developer registration is a earth alongside one additional lever for surveillance, one additional checkpoint for censorship."
Techlore – YouTube

"I'm not using the term 'phone.' I'm using the term 'computer.' This has complete 8 GB of RAM, a terabyte of storage. It's a computer. And I'm additionally not going to be using words akin 'sideload.' When you download an exe document onto your Windows computer, you've installed an application. You haven't 'sideloaded' something."
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"This method you can't sideload an app from an unofficial source. But it could additionally be used to fastener the ecosystem so we're forced to instal lone Google apps on approved Google OS versions."
Rob Braxman Tech – Locals

"Android has rotate into what they set out to destroy."
Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"The fact of the matter is, this is my device. I paid a lot of prosperity for it. I have to be capable to do alongside it what I want."
Switched to Linux – YouTube

"Google is doing to Android what Microsoft formerly tried to do to the web. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Just wrapped in a shinier open-source package."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"F-Droid is basically saying that the new Google developer registration procedure volition apt slay the open-source app shop entirely."
The Linux Experiment – YouTube

"Google is environment a necessity that lone they can fulfill, forcing developers to go through Google and slaying off thousands of apps. Countless users stranded."
Techlore – YouTube

"Google decides what's harmless for you, and you don't get a say."
fireborn – Blog

"This represents the final genuine harmless location for liberated and open-source application in the complete mobile ecosystem. Once it's gone, it's gone. And we're going to expend the next decade trying to claw it back."
Techlore – YouTube

"Imagine Dell told you that you could no longer instal any functioning scheme another than Windows on your laptop. That's what Google is doing to your phone."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Google isn't evaluation this in the US or Europe first. They're starting in countries akin Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Why? Because these are enormous growth markets anywhere regulation is weaker. By the period regulators capture up, the damage volition already be done."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"I have really no additional powerful logic to not propose you all get iPhones, since this fair is beautiful much an iPhone alongside a Google logo on it at this point."
Techlore – YouTube

"Google has been carefully observing from the sidelines to see what exactly it is that Apple can get distant with."
Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"Google already can disable malware that they discover on your device. It's already a built-in feature. So what is developer registration really adding here? Is it safety or control? You decide."
Techlore – YouTube

"The widely-circulated narrative that Google already backed downward from this is false. They didn't, and that misunderstanding may be the most hazardous part of the narrative correct now."
Techlore – YouTube

"Developers of privacy-focused tools and emulators volition have to dox themselves, making them susceptible to authorities agencies or lawful action."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"If I'm going to be trapped in a partitioned storyline anyway, I'll obtain the one that's built properly."
fireborn – Blog

"This is an iPhone now. I didn't desire to buy an iPhone. I use Android since it gives me freedom. If you are not going to provision me liberty alongside my computer, afterward why would I buy your material anymore?"
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Every sole period a business takes distant your capability to do what you desire alongside what you bought and paid for, all sole period they twist a knife, we have to item it out."
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Your device, their rules. The phone you bought and paid for is no longer really yours."
Tuta Blog – Blog

"Google keeps getting in as much difficulty as Apple whenever Google is fractional evil and Apple is complete evil. So there are likely group inner Google saying, 'Why not fair go complete evil?'"
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Google is removing the one key advantage Android has complete iOS."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"That's not openness. That is control."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"When you download applications, you've merely installed an application. I don't desire to use words akin 'sideload.'"
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Follow the money. Google makes prosperity whenever apps are downloaded from its store. Google has entirely forgotten concerning its before business motto: Don't be evil."
Tuta Blog – Blog

"A earth anywhere two tech companies from the identical city that dominate all of our mobile devices the two necessitate centralized developer registration is a earth alongside one additional lever for surveillance, one additional checkpoint for censorship."
Techlore – YouTube

"I'm not using the term 'phone.' I'm using the term 'computer.' This has complete 8 GB of RAM, a terabyte of storage. It's a computer. And I'm additionally not going to be using words akin 'sideload.' When you download an exe document onto your Windows computer, you've installed an application. You haven't 'sideloaded' something."
Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"This method you can't sideload an app from an unofficial source. But it could additionally be used to fastener the ecosystem so we're forced to instal lone Google apps on approved Google OS versions."
Rob Braxman Tech – Locals

"Android has rotate into what they set out to destroy."
Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"The fact of the matter is, this is my device. I paid a lot of prosperity for it. I have to be capable to do alongside it what I want."
Switched to Linux – YouTube

"Google is doing to Android what Microsoft formerly tried to do to the web. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Just wrapped in a shinier open-source package."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"F-Droid is basically saying that the new Google developer registration procedure volition apt slay the open-source app shop entirely."
The Linux Experiment – YouTube

"Google is environment a necessity that lone they can fulfill, forcing developers to go through Google and slaying off thousands of apps. Countless users stranded."
Techlore – YouTube

"Google decides what's harmless for you, and you don't get a say."
fireborn – Blog

"This represents the final genuine harmless location for liberated and open-source application in the complete mobile ecosystem. Once it's gone, it's gone. And we're going to expend the next decade trying to claw it back."
Techlore – YouTube

"Imagine Dell told you that you could no longer instal any functioning scheme another than Windows on your laptop. That's what Google is doing to your phone."
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Google isn't evaluation this in the US or Europe first. They're starting in countries akin Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Why? Because these are enormous growth markets anywhere regulation is weaker. By the period regulators capture up, the damage volition already be done."
ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"I have really no additional powerful logic to not propose you all get iPhones, since this fair is beautiful much an iPhone alongside a Google logo on it at this point."
Techlore – YouTube

"Google has been carefully observing from the sidelines to see what exactly it is that Apple can get distant with."
Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"Google already can disable malware that they discover on your device. It's already a built-in feature. So what is developer registration really adding here? Is it safety or control? You decide."
Techlore – YouTube

Developers & community

Voices from the petition

"We shouldn't have the decision to sideload apps stripped from us so additional of our data can be taken from under our noses. The bulk of the apps I use are from small devs. Devs who apt wouldn't have the period to jump through Google's arbitrary hoops, or wouldn't desire to the safety risks that comes alongside that compliance. "
Rebecca, change.org

"I do not akin doing this to Google but if I have to I volition format my phone and I volition toggle it complete to Kiley "
Jonathan, change.org

"I use android since it is an open platform. If this goes through, developers volition halt making apps so I power as fine move to apple. "
John, change.org

"Open origin exploration is too crucial to add any additional barriers to entrance. I anticipate it's bad for all of us, including alphabet and Google, the aosp... a new open example may increase from a shove specified as this. Really though, don't be evil, please "
Eric, change.org

"To put it merely it's incorrect all of it. The idea that we are so untrustworthy alongside our own devices that we need this flat of invasion/ surveillance implemented to fulfill their idea of safety is laughable. The online tech community is amazing and liberated to create any benevolent of customization to their own devices that they bought and paid for. And let's be honest there have been so many questionable decisions already according to safety and safety that Google is no longer entirely trustworthy. We should motionless be capable to have the choice to use our own customizable apps/systems on our own individual devices. None of this feels safe, none of these changes awareness akin they have our safety in mind. "
Charles, change.org

"the entire item of android is it's not apple, atp I'll fair put linux on my phone "
a, change.org

"I have been an android person for as lengthy as I can remember, do not alter that now Google. I have fair started to create android apps, since I discover the alternatives not so affable and bothersome. Android has been my driving emblem and I would not desire that to alter for any reason. "
Nijel, change.org

"Using Android has continually meant having the liberty to customize your cognition to your hearts content, this would be the end of an era. This would additionally be the end of many small app developers that can't or won't conform to the what one power say 'invasive' requirements to publish an app. You can say goodbye to FOSS and flank loading which is a huge part of Android customization. "
sebastian, change.org

"GOOGLE PLEASE DO NOT ENFORCE DEVELOPER VERIFICATION. THIS WILL STOP PROGRESS. "
Luka, change.org

"I chose to use Android devices specifically because of the authority that I, as an end user, have complete my records and the programs I chose to instal on them. Even if a program comes from an autonomous programmer, equal from another countries stores (like RuStore), equal if it an open origin app (like the ones from F-Droid), or fair choosing to use Telegram from the archetypal and most dependable origin ever- the developer's website itself. I formerly had an iOS equipment and I totally detested how locked up it was, it was nearly as if I were digitally "high jacked", depending on authority to do anything! Please don't eliminate us our liberty of doing to our devices our own experiments, finding and evolving emulators for our old games and apps that lawsuit our needs equal if they're not economically viable. Plus: Don't obtain distant the one tool many persecuted Christians about the earth have to download Bibles to their phones. That's ruthless and inhumane. "
Barbara, change.org

"What's the gag concerning Android being another iOS? Sure, you can discover any you desire on the Play Store as lengthy as it's there, but there are junk apps and paid apps that ask you to doxx yourself and inform them anywhere you live and everything else. No, where's the liberty in that that Android continually had? .... Another iOS? No. "
mike, change.org

"I have been using Android since Eclair, following using Windows Mobile 6 and iOS. I have been earnestly considering iOS again lately, and this would entirely convince me to jump ship. "
Jon, change.org

"I bought the entire phone, i'll use the entire phone, any way I want. Openness of Android is the lone logic I choose android, if I wanted a "Locked Down" phone, i'll fair go alongside Apple at that point. Make these censorship at smallest optional to block, LET ME DECIDE, but dont power it onto blocking of APK installs all together FOR EVERYONE, let the person decide for themselves. I don't desire Google to decide what I can or cannot do alongside the phone I BOUGHT. If I bought a phone, alongside the anticipation and the capability of doing X,Y,Z alongside it, don't obtain distant the Z AFTER I BOUGHT IT. I'll fair refuse to update my phone if it get's pushed that way. There's additional malware on the ADS you promote, fairly than anyplace else, im sure. "
Bryan, change.org

"This is censorship at its core. Stop trying to demolish the open net under the guise of safety. "
Dominic, change.org

"Everything concerning this software/app fastener out is beyond wrong. So is age verification. It is all beyond dystopian. George Orwell is spinning in his grave. My spouse plant in a important hospital and that hospital is already in a important panic since they have inner apps that can not be put out to apps stores for important safety reasons. They have no idea what they are going to do whenever these apps halt operating and can not be installed, used or updated since of these dystopian lockouts (i.e. blocking non app stores' apps from being installed; not to citation the important safety risks of age verification). The app monitors many critical operations and medicinal equipment throughout three important medicinal accommodation in the identical hospital network; among branch facilities. It alerts personnel and is used for many areas of communications in the hospital network. If this app can no longer be unified into the hospital's operations network, the entirety of the hospital's accommodation shuts down. I'm certain that if the hospital at which my spouse plant uses inner apps, afterward there are many another medicinal accommodation that do also. A neighbor that I inspect on regular uses an app for necessary medicinal reasons. This app is not and volition never be in any app store. Her doctors and the business that makes the equipment for thousands of group are in a panic. They can't fair put this control/monitoring app out there. They would have to redesign the device's complete scheme and it could obtain multiple years. Plus, there are the important safety risks. A companion has advanced diabetes and has a monitoring equipment stuck in his arm. The monitoring/alert app comes from the equipment manufacturer and not any app store. I additionally use medicinal apps that are not in any app store. I am additionally diabetic (not as seriously as my friend) and disabled. There are multiple another group in my area that depend on medicinal apps that are not in any app shop and are ONLY provided through a medicinal facility or medicinal equipment manufacturer. These companies do not put these apps out to these app stores for anyone to get their hands on for safety reasons. If person malicious got their hands on these medicinal equipment authority apps, tampered alongside it, and re-uploaded it for patients to afterward obtain, thousands of patients could die. What am I and all these group that depend on proprietary and equipment particular medicinal apps throughout the nation going to do whenever our apps/devices can't be installed or updated and fair halt working? These dystopian app fastener outs and the risks of age verification volition put millions of peoples lives on the row and volition have biblical flat consequences. This all needs to halt immediately! "
John, change.org

"This isn't safety, it's merely control. This hasn't been an matter for years. "
James, change.org

"I do not condone google to authority everything "
Leticia, change.org

"At the extremely smallest let there be one phase that can remain open, don't near it downward akin everything else. Let us have this. "
Juno, change.org

"Android's liberty of choice is what made me toggle from apple. I discover that limiting that those freedoms specified as sideloading an obnoxious spit in the visage of all who use and bask this functioning system. If I wanted an anti person merchandise id buy from apple. "
Link, change.org

"I have continually used android since of the authority I have complete MY phone. Installing any apps I desire from WHEREVER I desire is one if the chief reasons I favor android! I volition do everything I can to keep this from happening! "
Britanie, change.org

"Please halt monetizing making your application worse. I volition discontinue using it. "
Bobby, change.org

"We need to continue to have options on the android platform. Once censorship starts anywhere does it end. Developers need to have liberty and not be oppressed by greed. Side-loading is what makes ANDROID if that is taken, what makes Android distinctive it’s fair akin IOS a partitioned garden. "
Edgar, change.org

"The lone logic I've stuck alongside Android all these years has been its open ecosystem. If that's removed, I'd toggle to Apple in a heartbeat. "
Anjali, change.org

"I don't think that we have to be filtered into purchasing item we do not want. Something as merely as a climate app have to be free, news have to be free, but the services that's being offered in app stores as liberated is normally filled alongside ads that leak individual information. "
Andre, change.org

"This OS has been the lone location that has felt free, the capability to download item from anyplace is what a phone have to be capable to do. They trying to obtain distant my freedom, and I refuse to curve the genu and obtain it. "
Austin, change.org

"Google have to be ashamed of itself and provision users the liberty to instal any app they want. Why don't they eliminate those apps from their shop anywhere thousands of group endure from viruses? Bunch of scoundrels! "
Jorge, change.org

"I've installed dozens to hundreds of APKs on my phone for years. Whether it's individual projects or open origin tools. It's really the lone defining difference between Android and iOS. Why is this equal being considered by Google? "
Joseph, change.org

"The logic I went alongside Android at all was its openness, all important publish seemed to deteriorate downward at that, and now the lately announced lockdown of all apps needing several paid license? That's Google unfairly abusing its monopoly position. "
Adpocalyptic, change.org

"Android is designed to be free. We own OUR devices. This is not up for discussion "
Brandon, change.org

"Inaceitável "
Daniel, change.org

"Everyone is sharing how much they flank alongside Android for the capability to have fuller authority complete what they can do alongside their devices .. and I'm so on commission alongside that... I can't remain to have restrictions which is why I've continually used Android devices.. There's a lot of liberty to authorize ourselves to develope what we'd akin and portion them alongside others .. that is item I myself bask be capable to obtain advantage of as I am in no way informed in programming and most pf the time, everything I desire is done by volunteers or group who fair do these things as a hobby... what a community 👏 so annoyed Google is trying to enforce this stupidity "
Santiana, change.org

"Android has lengthy been the functioning scheme that has allowed customization and freedom. It's the bedrock on why I use the platform. Taking distant the capability to use FOSS and substitute sources fair kills what makes Android Android for me. At that phase I power as fine provision in and get a blue bubble and improved basis privacy. Super disappointed in this direction. "
Jacob, change.org

"The equipment that you bought that you own should not have any restrictions added following the acquisition of what you can or cannot download onto stated device. What (Google) is trying to do is going immediately against that. "
Emilie, change.org

"we pay for these devices and keep them. we have to be capable to do item we desire alongside them. Locking us out is fair greed. Like purchasing a car. afterward having to pay always duration to use the heated seats that are already in the car. if anything, let us put a distinct scheme on the phone. "
David, change.org

"Keep Android akin it started, open and liberated for anyone! "
Edgar, change.org

"I've spent my complete younker and grownup existence trying my extremely finest to curate tech that puts me in accusation fairly than several unaccountable corporation. Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury I do, and equal my stance is slightly precarious. As a person of GrapheneOS, theoretically this alter volition not power me directly, but that doesn't average the ripples volition not attain me. App developers are being hamstrung in specified a way that I have no confidence whatsoever that these projected changes to the Android ecosystem won't breeze up slaying helpful and crucial apps that I use. Just using an unverified equipment is not enough, these changes must not go through. "
Ben, change.org

"As detailed at https://developer.android.com/developer-verification, Google is preparedness to enforce a necessity that developers of Android applications centrally enroll their signing keys alongside Google and pay a fee, enforced by the Google Play Services example preventing applications from unregistered developers from operating on users' devices. Google already misplaced a case on this matter and was forced to create it easier for users to instal applications from third parties (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-proposes-app-store-reforms-settlement-with-fortnite-maker-epic-games-2025-11-05/). The F-Droid project has plainly stated that Google's current behavior threatens its extremely existence, which is as far as I can inform in straightforward infringement of the intent of that ruling (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html). I personally use F-Droid as the chief origin of application on my device. If Google goes through alongside this plan, my liberty to use my equipment as I see fit volition be harmed. "
Duncan, change.org

"Android is the finest phase for evaluation and evolving applications. It would be a shame if specified an ridiculous decision caused many users to forsake the functioning scheme and migrate to another. Google, delight reconsider this decision. "
Angel Uriel, change.org

"I do not assistance Google moving android in a totalitarian direction anywhere liberty is removed and chief authority is enforced. Keep Android Free! "
Phillip, change.org

"The lone item that set Android distinct from Apple (and frankly made it objectively improved than Apple) is the liberty of authority you have complete a equipment you really own. Removing that capability makes Android no improved than Apple, power as fine say you don't really own that phone or tablet whenever you obtain distant specified freedoms. "
George, change.org

"I went rear to Android complete Apple since of APK freedom. There is no logic to buy an Android phone if this alter is implemented. Android users affection DIY: researching, exploring new manufacturers, using autonomous APK repositories. Google is trying to demolish the one item that makes Android appealing. We all power as fine buy iPhones if this is the direction they are choosing. Or dump our prosperity into PinePhone dev. "
Kay, change.org

"Funny how a regulation as straightforward as “don’t be evil” can motionless rotate out to be amazingly difficult to live up to. "
JV, change.org

"This is the lone logic android is improved than android "
David, change.org

"FOSS IS WHAT BUILT ANDROID. THIS WILL HURT FOSS. "
Noah, change.org

"Trading liberty for safety is item that should never be accepted! When person offers you safety in toggle for your freedom, what they're really saying is: "Give up your power and rely me not to demolish you." Imposed safety is a leash. Freedom hurts since it leaves you exposed to chaos, but it's the ache of strength—the ache that forges sovereignty. Remember: "Those who would provision up essential liberty for a small impermanent safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin "
William, change.org

"I have been using Android since I was a wee small lad and for the uncomplicated fact that it was quarry and I had authority complete what and who I allowed on my devices. Using the iPoor (iPhones) continually had the intrinsic "we at Apple cognize what's finest for you" category of person cognition and never got rearward it. This cannot continue in in any country. "
Moe, change.org

"If I wanted my phone to be a captive in a fascist dictatorship I'd have an iPhone. I've been thinking concerning degoogling my life, perchance now is the period to do it. "
Karl, change.org

"Some group live difficult lifes, APKs gave us liberty and versatility alongside our smartphones, that among the top things that made me buy and use android "
João Gabriel, change.org

"I don't desire to be forced alter brands or worse build my own (device), fair to instal programs I create / desire to use, I awareness akin I volition have to hack my phones and substitute the OS alongside item that I can't verify how harmless it is (I cognize android has its problems but still) "
tom, change.org

"Seriously, this can damage equivalent devs/ports (legally) affirmative all APK is checked if this decision is accepted. "
Leonardo, change.org

"This won't create Android surpass Apple - it'll fair speed up its demise "
ching, change.org

"Locking the bootloader is bad. Preventing flank loading is bad. If I buy a device, I desire to use it as I like. That is the entire logic I've stuck on ith Android in the archetypal place. Guess those days are gone. "
Joseph, change.org

"Despicable company complete attain on complete display here. Stop the change, let users choose and decided how they desire to use their devices! "
Markus, change.org

"https://keepandroidopen.org/ "
Shrewd, change.org

"This is plainly a descision taken by Sundar Pichai for the financial gain of Google, it has exactly nothing to do alongside safety or safety of the users akin Google claims, if it were so, there were many another ways to do this. I think group akin me volition fair toggle to iPhone at this point, as Google has decided to fair slay Android's lone important advantage. Such a shame. Android used to be a sign of liberty and openness. "
Aurelian, change.org

"Free volition is beautiful cool. Kinda the entire logic Android is better to Apple. Maybe don't rotate into Apple. That'd be beautiful cool. If I didn't desire liberated volition anymore I would have purchased an Apple device. Google. Don't be akin Apple. Thank you. "
Tyler, change.org

"Not everybody wants to be forced into paying a fee to Google, agreeing to their Terms and Conditions, providing a authorities ID, upload evidence of the developer’s personal signing key, or listing all current and forthcoming use identifiers. When purchasing an Android, installers akin F-Droid served to assistance alongside having a extensively used open computing phase anywhere you could run any application you choose on it fairly than having a ample tech business akin Google authority what apps and shop fronts you can instal from. By making this new alter earth broad to Android, we're ceding the entitlements of citizens and their own digital sovereignty to a business alongside a track document of complying alongside the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to eliminate absolutely lawful apps that they happen to dislike. Google actively has been paying another companies akin Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla Corporation, and Opera to keep their hunt motor as the default choice either pre-installed or following manual installation. Additionally, we’ve seen Google entirely deprecate assistance for Manifest V2 extensions to intentionally obstacle the use of mighty liberated open-source tools akin uBlock Origin to consolidate authority complete the browser ecosystem and defend its promotion income complete privacy and security. Google claims it’s their “job” to do the correct item by “caring” concerning our customers well-being notwithstanding having a track document of being dreadful alongside the two their web browser and document settings. Even downward to the way your Google document is setup and the benevolent of delicate data required fair to create one. To forcefully refuse specified a drastic and unethical change, I’d extremely propose everyone to use F-Droid and instal apps which are either entirely unavailable in the Google Play Store or ones that utilize liberated open-source application alongside an accent on privacy and security. Most of which you’ll discover are extremely helpful apps that do mundane tasks without added bloat and equal precious ones which aren’t Google’s proprietary solution. We as humans have all correct to use any application and hardware is most desired alongside alongside retaining a extremely elevated norm for the two privacy and safety respecting applications, tools, and resources. "
David, change.org

"I am genuinely furious concerning what Google is trying to do by limiting APK usage. This is not several small backdrop tweak. This cuts direct into the logic many of us chose Android in the archetypal place. Android meant freedom. It meant I could instal what I wanted. It meant developers could portion their activity without kneeling before a sole endorsement system. It meant that whenever I bought my phone, it was really mine. We keep hearing that this is concerning “security.” And yes, safety matters. Nobody wants malware. But there is a genuine difference between protecting users and controlling them. Give group warnings. Give them tools. Educate them. Do not obtain distant their capability to choose. I am an adult, completely consenting and capable of deciding what I instal on my own device. When APK use is restricted, everything narrows. Developers get pushed into one authoritative channel. One assessment process. One business deciding what is satisfactory and what is not. That benevolent of centralized authority should create all of us uncomfortable. It changes the balance of power, and it does it under the gentle tongue of safety and convenience. This is concerning ownership. If I cannot openly instal apps, do I really own my device? Or am I fair using it inside boundaries that can change whenever it finest suits a corporation? I barely think it is extreme to say that whenever I pay for hardware, I should have complete authority complete what runs on it. That is not radical. That is essential digital autonomy. And I am not fine alongside observing that autonomy gradually disappear without saying something. "
Brooke, change.org

"F droid is my chief way of installing apps. Blocking sideloading volition basically alter how I use my phone, and create it unattainable for me to use my phone in the way that I have for years. "
T, change.org

"Google has been sued up the butt for monopolizing before, and now they're trying again? And on top of these ridiculous surveillance laws all since a few parents can't observe their children, this is fair a foolish decision to make. "
Kamareon, change.org

"As person who writes and uses my own APKs to create my equipment equal additional helpful to me, this lockdown would be a agreement breaker for my use of the Google Android platform "
Luke, change.org

"This is a horrendous plan. The Android Open Source Project is expected to be fair that... Open source. Requiring developers to provision Id, pay a fee, and enroll to publish application for phones that group own is untenable. This is efficiently making Android as much of a partitioned storyline as Apple. Except Apple does it better. The entire diagram of Android was the openness of the platform. If you eliminate that, we would be improved off alongside Apple. PLEASE do not ruin Android by going onward alongside this misguided plan. "
Alan, change.org

"The commitment was an open and liberated OS "
Daniel, change.org

"This is contemptible behavior on Googles part. I own my device, hence I get to decide what I desire to instal to it. Period. End of story. Some company suite midway throughout the nation shouldn't be allowed to decide what I can instal on my device. We need to remain up to this benevolent of abuse of power. "
Devin, change.org

"1 national lawsuit wasn't enough? This lone scratches the exterior of the equivalent they keep playing. Why following all that's happened, being convicted of monopoly must Google awareness the need to lockdown the one attempt we have at staying personal on mobile? Even if they do desire to collect additional data it volition disbursal them several of their userbase. The conditions of the update solitary are outrageous. Fees & gov't ID? Let's sue 'em again! 😂 "
Zach, change.org

"This guideline is the antithesis of what makes Android the finest on the market. The guideline infringes on our freedoms as American people. I should not have to portion who I am or what I appearance akin or anywhere I live to a business that I don't attention about. The authorities needs to cognize who I am, but a business doesn't. The instant the business gets hacked from anywhere/anyone, they have all my information. That is dumb and should not happen, ever! "
Ayden, change.org

"I never liked Apple's extremely restrictive assistance for their app and mobile OS. I chose Android since of the liberty of customizability and choice, and comfort of access. Do not create Android a wasteland, Google. People who use andriod value privacy and security, during additionally effortlessly being capable to create it improved without worrying concerning who has what data concerning them. Please, think concerning the consequences for once. "
Maygen, change.org

"APKs are exactly the backbone of everything android. Schools who create android apps as a category volition be out of luck. Please keep android open. "
Zachary, change.org

"As a regular person and a small developer, I discover this measure deeply concerning. When I choose to buy an Android phone, it is alongside the anticipation of having authority complete how I use it, not to visage restrictions or censorship. Tools akin Knox and Play Integrity are already frustrating enough, and now it seems that equal downloading applications from F-Droid or another nice Stores have to be checked ?! This undermines the two person liberty and the open soul that initially defined Android. We have ( fine we have to obtain it back) the correct to create, modify, and use apps—and to communicate online—without being forced to provision up anonymity. It is up to users to instruct themselves concerning possible risks, not for GAFAM to decide on our behalf. "
naknak, change.org

"This is exactly why I switched to android. The literal lone reason. "
Ari Siobhan, change.org

"I stayed distant from astute phones in the first days since they were locked down. It was lone following I saw that Android was an open phase that I was consenting to equal try one. If Google locks downward Android, afterward I volition either toggle to a essential characteristic phone, alongside no data (suits me fine, mobile data is ridiculously expensive), or I volition hack together a Linux phone. What's the item in having Android if it fair turns in to a.aecond-rate iOS? "
William, change.org

"If Scroogle were always to obstacle sideloading on Android, it would basically alter what makes Android…Android. Sideloading isn’t a loophole. It’s a feature. It’s part of the open doctrine that initially set Android distinct from additional locked-down ecosystems akin Apple’s iOS. If sideloading disappears, users no longer really “own” their devices, they’re renting approval to use them. No additional installing open-source, privacy-friendly, and rivalrous apps, everything is now strictly controlled and monitored by the data-hungry scroogle monopoly. Here's expecting the EU steps in and fines them trillions this time, 'cause the data-hungry devils operating scroogle (and microsoft too) fair keeps showing that they can't be trusted alongside ANYTHING. "
Raashid, change.org

"Im ill of these souless corps squeezing all cent from us they can! "
Marcus, change.org

"This would seriously bounds any logic I have to use a google certified android phone. Without the capability to effortlessly assistance open origin developers and tinker alongside my own projects -- the android phone would cease to be my "daily driver". These are our computers, and we have to be capable to instal what we desire on them. It's disrespectful to obtain that correct away. Please reconsider removing your hardware's top and most person affable power in the mobile market. "
Kedryn, change.org

"Don't be Apple! "
Wenshan, change.org

"Google is shifting from openness and liberty toward a closed feudal system. This represents additional than fair a setback for application platforms; it is a stage backward for individual civilization. "
John, change.org

"This was why I didn't use iphones "
Greg, change.org

"I've continually akin Google for supporting open source. If Google doesn't not assistance open origin who will? Come Google delight keep being protagonist of open source. I don't intellect all the tracking Google does as lengthy as they assistance open source "
allan, change.org

"Wow, I certain akin it whenever the functioning scheme touted to be for power-users to create unequivocally theirs gets close up. If I wanted to perform it "your way or the highway", I'd go to Apple. This is my device. And I don't need YOUR endorsement for that. "
Liam, change.org

"One of the reasons I use android is so I can do what I desire dissimilar an iPhone. Locking it downward volition create it no distinct from the competition "
Jonathan, change.org

"As others have certainly stated alongside alongside me, the Android phase was continually chosen complete Apple since of the liberty it allowed. Creating another oppressive "nanny" based jail surroundings for customers is not the answer. No "features" or promises of "safety" are value giving up liberty of a formerly open OS. "
Jason, change.org

"Locking downward a entirely liberated and open functioning scheme akin android lone makes the surroundings additional unsafe for the user. Preventing them from having control, and being forced to instal assistance locked bloatware/malware alternatively of giving the end person authority is a clean formula for disaster. It volition be equal additional prone to incursion, and targeting by malicious entities than if it were remaining liberated and open as it has continually been. I have continually been a enormous protagonist for 'you buy it, you own it' merely since that's the way it should be, and has continually been. If there is no ownership of item in your possession, there's no logic for having it in the archetypal place. "
Chad, change.org

"As a kid, I used to think iPhone, and iOS as a whole, was great. As I idea "people don't need alot of things, they have everything they want." Until I had a Google Pixel 6 Pro for Christmas. It became my tinkering device, and allowed me to admission things, I never knew I wanted. And it allowed me to have admission things that normally would've costed my family a beautiful penny. By forcing verification "
Josue, change.org

"Hands off the APK! I remaining Russia for Freedom in 2022 and now you trying to restrict our Freedom akin a offender Putin. "
Alex, change.org

"Android phones letting me authority my apps in my way is why I affection and rod alongside Android. I can't assistance upstart developers without our current APK framework. A forthcoming without among the guide reasons I own an Android phone, is a forthcoming anywhere I fair halt owning a phone. "
Kyle, change.org

"The chief logic I've continually preferred android complete apple is the liberty of app betterment and usage. What's the item of using an android phone whenever I have to depend on an app shop that limits what's available? This decision is gonna power an already undesirable Google "
Mychal, change.org

"I have been avoiding iPhone and using Android specifically for this reason. Why would Google alter item that is operating for them? Why ruin item good? Short sighted and foolish move. "
Will, change.org

"I really liked android phones logic of the liberty they use to have, but alongside this... they are the identical as Apple so.... there's any logic for me to akin Android anymore "
Fabián Jhovany, change.org

"After dithering for ages, I eventually did what I've continually wanted to do, I installed a de-googled android it's, E/Os. Its great! If google persist in this, I'm certain additional non specialized users volition too! I additionally wrote to my mp & to the UK monopoly commission. Search E/Os murena see if you can too! "
ed, change.org

"Android has been the location for group to create and discover... It's extremely safe already, and there's no need to present us all to the latest authoritarian wishes of Google... They desire to have the developer's complete information, to ban you if you difficulty them or create an app that they don't like, but group do. We need to halt this... We appreciate Google for all of what they've done so far... But if they are going downward this path, it's period for a TRULY open alternative... "
javier, change.org

"I chose Android for the extremely logic of it being open and letting me run any application I want. Don’t obtain that distant following I’ve already bought my device. Millions of us chose Android for the exact logic of what you're trying to censor. Don’t fastener it downward since you think you cognize better. If I wanted a business deciding what I can or can’t do on my own device, I’d buy an iPhone instead. "
Paulo, change.org

"If Google does this I volition move to iOS. If stated a choice for locked downward mobile OS I awareness safer alongside Apple. And the way the earth is going alongside all the horrible AI etc.. and company authority of our lives I volition obtain the lesser of two evils. At smallest alongside Apple you can OPT out of Apple intellect during setup alongside iPhone fair akin alongside Mac OS which I lately went to following MS's windows 11. I'm beautiful pessimistic concerning this alter and acknowledge that I volition apt be purchasing my archetypal iPhone in the end of the year. "
Trent, change.org

"I've relied on a third-party adblocker to disable adverts throughout my complete phone, and pulling this stunt would jeopardise specified wishes not to have adverts in exactly all sole use I use. I do not desire the Android OS to rotate into iOS in being unnecessarily strict on sideloading and people's entitlements to download any apps they desire that power not be on the Play Store. Google, you NEED a actuality inspect if you really think being anti-consumer is going to "help" anybody in their lives. "
Finn, change.org

"we need to choice. halt google "
Dhlox, change.org

"Just another stage big tech is taking to obtain distant our entitlements and freedoms. "
Martin, change.org

"Android promised us a choice. We shouldn't let them obtain it distant from users and developers alike fair to have additional control. "
Cross, change.org

"I am not a developer, I am fair a user, and I think it is extremely crucial to say that this does not fair power developers. There is nothing fine concerning locking downward an open ecosystem. There is no fine logic for Google mandating ID Verification apart from pushing their control complete Android. This is disgusting, stated that Android has continually been seen as the liberated haven distant from Apple's partitioned garden. Now the lone way to accomplish liberty is by using a fork of Android, which volition rotate into harder and harder as Google inevitably enforces locked bootloaders. Seeing Android rotate into a Google flavored IOS is fair a huge punch in the gut, and really puts into viewpoint what can be misplaced under greedy leadership. "
Zakery, change.org

"Hi, I've been using an android phone for complete a decade and, akin the computers I grew up with, I've been capable to choose which functioning scheme to instal and anywhere I get my apps/programs from too. There are currently a figure of app stores, beyond those provided by Apple and Google. Sadly, Google has decided (https://developer.android.com/developer-verification) to use their near-monopoly stance in the android market to affect in blatantly anti-competitive behavior by requiring app developers to enroll alongside Google. Google is trying to market this as a "security" but this "security" promotion ploy not convincing nor does it inform the entire story. Further, having put an arbitrary obstacle to competition, Google has decided to accusation app developers for the "privilege" of having the app on android - anywhere earlier there was no specified fee (https://keepandroidopen.org/). Google has stated they volition commencement this from September 2026, so act is needed promptly. As an Australian, I recall the period in 2021 whenever Google threatened to eliminate it's hunt motor from Australians (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673 and https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/inside-google-s-mothballed-plans-to-quit-search-in-australia-20231108-p5eil7) and whenever Google threatened to sue the Australian authorities in 2025 (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/google-threatens-to-sue-if-youtube-is-included-in-australias-kids-social-media-ban/axud666av). Happily, we have not responded to their threats. This is another period to remain up, exercise our national sovereignty and create companies that run in Australia, abide by applicable Australian legislation. Multi-nationals, akin Google, are no exception. "
Colin, change.org

"Literally the finest part of android devices is sideloading APKs "
Michael, change.org

"Just lately i started learning concerning how to instal f droid to defend myself from g00gle and this is what happens?! death to big tech! "
Noor, change.org

"We shouldn't have the decision to sideload apps stripped from us so additional of our data can be taken from under our noses. The bulk of the apps I use are from small devs. Devs who apt wouldn't have the period to jump through Google's arbitrary hoops, or wouldn't desire to the safety risks that comes alongside that compliance. "
Rebecca, change.org

"I do not akin doing this to Google but if I have to I volition format my phone and I volition toggle it complete to Kiley "
Jonathan, change.org

"I use android since it is an open platform. If this goes through, developers volition halt making apps so I power as fine move to apple. "
John, change.org

"Open origin exploration is too crucial to add any additional barriers to entrance. I anticipate it's bad for all of us, including alphabet and Google, the aosp... a new open example may increase from a shove specified as this. Really though, don't be evil, please "
Eric, change.org

"To put it merely it's incorrect all of it. The idea that we are so untrustworthy alongside our own devices that we need this flat of invasion/ surveillance implemented to fulfill their idea of safety is laughable. The online tech community is amazing and liberated to create any benevolent of customization to their own devices that they bought and paid for. And let's be honest there have been so many questionable decisions already according to safety and safety that Google is no longer entirely trustworthy. We should motionless be capable to have the choice to use our own customizable apps/systems on our own individual devices. None of this feels safe, none of these changes awareness akin they have our safety in mind. "
Charles, change.org

"the entire item of android is it's not apple, atp I'll fair put linux on my phone "
a, change.org

"I have been an android person for as lengthy as I can remember, do not alter that now Google. I have fair started to create android apps, since I discover the alternatives not so affable and bothersome. Android has been my driving emblem and I would not desire that to alter for any reason. "
Nijel, change.org

"Using Android has continually meant having the liberty to customize your cognition to your hearts content, this would be the end of an era. This would additionally be the end of many small app developers that can't or won't conform to the what one power say 'invasive' requirements to publish an app. You can say goodbye to FOSS and flank loading which is a huge part of Android customization. "
sebastian, change.org

"GOOGLE PLEASE DO NOT ENFORCE DEVELOPER VERIFICATION. THIS WILL STOP PROGRESS. "
Luka, change.org

"I chose to use Android devices specifically because of the authority that I, as an end user, have complete my records and the programs I chose to instal on them. Even if a program comes from an autonomous programmer, equal from another countries stores (like RuStore), equal if it an open origin app (like the ones from F-Droid), or fair choosing to use Telegram from the archetypal and most dependable origin ever- the developer's website itself. I formerly had an iOS equipment and I totally detested how locked up it was, it was nearly as if I were digitally "high jacked", depending on authority to do anything! Please don't eliminate us our liberty of doing to our devices our own experiments, finding and evolving emulators for our old games and apps that lawsuit our needs equal if they're not economically viable. Plus: Don't obtain distant the one tool many persecuted Christians about the earth have to download Bibles to their phones. That's ruthless and inhumane. "
Barbara, change.org

"What's the gag concerning Android being another iOS? Sure, you can discover any you desire on the Play Store as lengthy as it's there, but there are junk apps and paid apps that ask you to doxx yourself and inform them anywhere you live and everything else. No, where's the liberty in that that Android continually had? .... Another iOS? No. "
mike, change.org

"I have been using Android since Eclair, following using Windows Mobile 6 and iOS. I have been earnestly considering iOS again lately, and this would entirely convince me to jump ship. "
Jon, change.org

"I bought the entire phone, i'll use the entire phone, any way I want. Openness of Android is the lone logic I choose android, if I wanted a "Locked Down" phone, i'll fair go alongside Apple at that point. Make these censorship at smallest optional to block, LET ME DECIDE, but dont power it onto blocking of APK installs all together FOR EVERYONE, let the person decide for themselves. I don't desire Google to decide what I can or cannot do alongside the phone I BOUGHT. If I bought a phone, alongside the anticipation and the capability of doing X,Y,Z alongside it, don't obtain distant the Z AFTER I BOUGHT IT. I'll fair refuse to update my phone if it get's pushed that way. There's additional malware on the ADS you promote, fairly than anyplace else, im sure. "
Bryan, change.org

"This is censorship at its core. Stop trying to demolish the open net under the guise of safety. "
Dominic, change.org

"Everything concerning this software/app fastener out is beyond wrong. So is age verification. It is all beyond dystopian. George Orwell is spinning in his grave. My spouse plant in a important hospital and that hospital is already in a important panic since they have inner apps that can not be put out to apps stores for important safety reasons. They have no idea what they are going to do whenever these apps halt operating and can not be installed, used or updated since of these dystopian lockouts (i.e. blocking non app stores' apps from being installed; not to citation the important safety risks of age verification). The app monitors many critical operations and medicinal equipment throughout three important medicinal accommodation in the identical hospital network; among branch facilities. It alerts personnel and is used for many areas of communications in the hospital network. If this app can no longer be unified into the hospital's operations network, the entirety of the hospital's accommodation shuts down. I'm certain that if the hospital at which my spouse plant uses inner apps, afterward there are many another medicinal accommodation that do also. A neighbor that I inspect on regular uses an app for necessary medicinal reasons. This app is not and volition never be in any app store. Her doctors and the business that makes the equipment for thousands of group are in a panic. They can't fair put this control/monitoring app out there. They would have to redesign the device's complete scheme and it could obtain multiple years. Plus, there are the important safety risks. A companion has advanced diabetes and has a monitoring equipment stuck in his arm. The monitoring/alert app comes from the equipment manufacturer and not any app store. I additionally use medicinal apps that are not in any app store. I am additionally diabetic (not as seriously as my friend) and disabled. There are multiple another group in my area that depend on medicinal apps that are not in any app shop and are ONLY provided through a medicinal facility or medicinal equipment manufacturer. These companies do not put these apps out to these app stores for anyone to get their hands on for safety reasons. If person malicious got their hands on these medicinal equipment authority apps, tampered alongside it, and re-uploaded it for patients to afterward obtain, thousands of patients could die. What am I and all these group that depend on proprietary and equipment particular medicinal apps throughout the nation going to do whenever our apps/devices can't be installed or updated and fair halt working? These dystopian app fastener outs and the risks of age verification volition put millions of peoples lives on the row and volition have biblical flat consequences. This all needs to halt immediately! "
John, change.org

"This isn't safety, it's merely control. This hasn't been an matter for years. "
James, change.org

"I do not condone google to authority everything "
Leticia, change.org

"At the extremely smallest let there be one phase that can remain open, don't near it downward akin everything else. Let us have this. "
Juno, change.org

"Android's liberty of choice is what made me toggle from apple. I discover that limiting that those freedoms specified as sideloading an obnoxious spit in the visage of all who use and bask this functioning system. If I wanted an anti person merchandise id buy from apple. "
Link, change.org

"I have continually used android since of the authority I have complete MY phone. Installing any apps I desire from WHEREVER I desire is one if the chief reasons I favor android! I volition do everything I can to keep this from happening! "
Britanie, change.org

"Please halt monetizing making your application worse. I volition discontinue using it. "
Bobby, change.org

"We need to continue to have options on the android platform. Once censorship starts anywhere does it end. Developers need to have liberty and not be oppressed by greed. Side-loading is what makes ANDROID if that is taken, what makes Android distinctive it’s fair akin IOS a partitioned garden. "
Edgar, change.org

"The lone logic I've stuck alongside Android all these years has been its open ecosystem. If that's removed, I'd toggle to Apple in a heartbeat. "
Anjali, change.org

"I don't think that we have to be filtered into purchasing item we do not want. Something as merely as a climate app have to be free, news have to be free, but the services that's being offered in app stores as liberated is normally filled alongside ads that leak individual information. "
Andre, change.org

"This OS has been the lone location that has felt free, the capability to download item from anyplace is what a phone have to be capable to do. They trying to obtain distant my freedom, and I refuse to curve the genu and obtain it. "
Austin, change.org

"Google have to be ashamed of itself and provision users the liberty to instal any app they want. Why don't they eliminate those apps from their shop anywhere thousands of group endure from viruses? Bunch of scoundrels! "
Jorge, change.org

"I've installed dozens to hundreds of APKs on my phone for years. Whether it's individual projects or open origin tools. It's really the lone defining difference between Android and iOS. Why is this equal being considered by Google? "
Joseph, change.org

"The logic I went alongside Android at all was its openness, all important publish seemed to deteriorate downward at that, and now the lately announced lockdown of all apps needing several paid license? That's Google unfairly abusing its monopoly position. "
Adpocalyptic, change.org

"Android is designed to be free. We own OUR devices. This is not up for discussion "
Brandon, change.org

"Inaceitável "
Daniel, change.org

"Everyone is sharing how much they flank alongside Android for the capability to have fuller authority complete what they can do alongside their devices .. and I'm so on commission alongside that... I can't remain to have restrictions which is why I've continually used Android devices.. There's a lot of liberty to authorize ourselves to develope what we'd akin and portion them alongside others .. that is item I myself bask be capable to obtain advantage of as I am in no way informed in programming and most pf the time, everything I desire is done by volunteers or group who fair do these things as a hobby... what a community 👏 so annoyed Google is trying to enforce this stupidity "
Santiana, change.org

"Android has lengthy been the functioning scheme that has allowed customization and freedom. It's the bedrock on why I use the platform. Taking distant the capability to use FOSS and substitute sources fair kills what makes Android Android for me. At that phase I power as fine provision in and get a blue bubble and improved basis privacy. Super disappointed in this direction. "
Jacob, change.org

"The equipment that you bought that you own should not have any restrictions added following the acquisition of what you can or cannot download onto stated device. What (Google) is trying to do is going immediately against that. "
Emilie, change.org

"we pay for these devices and keep them. we have to be capable to do item we desire alongside them. Locking us out is fair greed. Like purchasing a car. afterward having to pay always duration to use the heated seats that are already in the car. if anything, let us put a distinct scheme on the phone. "
David, change.org

"Keep Android akin it started, open and liberated for anyone! "
Edgar, change.org

"I've spent my complete younker and grownup existence trying my extremely finest to curate tech that puts me in accusation fairly than several unaccountable corporation. Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury I do, and equal my stance is slightly precarious. As a person of GrapheneOS, theoretically this alter volition not power me directly, but that doesn't average the ripples volition not attain me. App developers are being hamstrung in specified a way that I have no confidence whatsoever that these projected changes to the Android ecosystem won't breeze up slaying helpful and crucial apps that I use. Just using an unverified equipment is not enough, these changes must not go through. "
Ben, change.org

"As detailed at https://developer.android.com/developer-verification, Google is preparedness to enforce a necessity that developers of Android applications centrally enroll their signing keys alongside Google and pay a fee, enforced by the Google Play Services example preventing applications from unregistered developers from operating on users' devices. Google already misplaced a case on this matter and was forced to create it easier for users to instal applications from third parties (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-proposes-app-store-reforms-settlement-with-fortnite-maker-epic-games-2025-11-05/). The F-Droid project has plainly stated that Google's current behavior threatens its extremely existence, which is as far as I can inform in straightforward infringement of the intent of that ruling (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html). I personally use F-Droid as the chief origin of application on my device. If Google goes through alongside this plan, my liberty to use my equipment as I see fit volition be harmed. "
Duncan, change.org

"Android is the finest phase for evaluation and evolving applications. It would be a shame if specified an ridiculous decision caused many users to forsake the functioning scheme and migrate to another. Google, delight reconsider this decision. "
Angel Uriel, change.org

"I do not assistance Google moving android in a totalitarian direction anywhere liberty is removed and chief authority is enforced. Keep Android Free! "
Phillip, change.org

"The lone item that set Android distinct from Apple (and frankly made it objectively improved than Apple) is the liberty of authority you have complete a equipment you really own. Removing that capability makes Android no improved than Apple, power as fine say you don't really own that phone or tablet whenever you obtain distant specified freedoms. "
George, change.org

"I went rear to Android complete Apple since of APK freedom. There is no logic to buy an Android phone if this alter is implemented. Android users affection DIY: researching, exploring new manufacturers, using autonomous APK repositories. Google is trying to demolish the one item that makes Android appealing. We all power as fine buy iPhones if this is the direction they are choosing. Or dump our prosperity into PinePhone dev. "
Kay, change.org

"Funny how a regulation as straightforward as “don’t be evil” can motionless rotate out to be amazingly difficult to live up to. "
JV, change.org

"This is the lone logic android is improved than android "
David, change.org

"FOSS IS WHAT BUILT ANDROID. THIS WILL HURT FOSS. "
Noah, change.org

"Trading liberty for safety is item that should never be accepted! When person offers you safety in toggle for your freedom, what they're really saying is: "Give up your power and rely me not to demolish you." Imposed safety is a leash. Freedom hurts since it leaves you exposed to chaos, but it's the ache of strength—the ache that forges sovereignty. Remember: "Those who would provision up essential liberty for a small impermanent safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin "
William, change.org

"I have been using Android since I was a wee small lad and for the uncomplicated fact that it was quarry and I had authority complete what and who I allowed on my devices. Using the iPoor (iPhones) continually had the intrinsic "we at Apple cognize what's finest for you" category of person cognition and never got rearward it. This cannot continue in in any country. "
Moe, change.org

"If I wanted my phone to be a captive in a fascist dictatorship I'd have an iPhone. I've been thinking concerning degoogling my life, perchance now is the period to do it. "
Karl, change.org

"Some group live difficult lifes, APKs gave us liberty and versatility alongside our smartphones, that among the top things that made me buy and use android "
João Gabriel, change.org

"I don't desire to be forced alter brands or worse build my own (device), fair to instal programs I create / desire to use, I awareness akin I volition have to hack my phones and substitute the OS alongside item that I can't verify how harmless it is (I cognize android has its problems but still) "
tom, change.org

"Seriously, this can damage equivalent devs/ports (legally) affirmative all APK is checked if this decision is accepted. "
Leonardo, change.org

"This won't create Android surpass Apple - it'll fair speed up its demise "
ching, change.org

"Locking the bootloader is bad. Preventing flank loading is bad. If I buy a device, I desire to use it as I like. That is the entire logic I've stuck on ith Android in the archetypal place. Guess those days are gone. "
Joseph, change.org

"Despicable company complete attain on complete display here. Stop the change, let users choose and decided how they desire to use their devices! "
Markus, change.org

"https://keepandroidopen.org/ "
Shrewd, change.org

"This is plainly a descision taken by Sundar Pichai for the financial gain of Google, it has exactly nothing to do alongside safety or safety of the users akin Google claims, if it were so, there were many another ways to do this. I think group akin me volition fair toggle to iPhone at this point, as Google has decided to fair slay Android's lone important advantage. Such a shame. Android used to be a sign of liberty and openness. "
Aurelian, change.org

"Free volition is beautiful cool. Kinda the entire logic Android is better to Apple. Maybe don't rotate into Apple. That'd be beautiful cool. If I didn't desire liberated volition anymore I would have purchased an Apple device. Google. Don't be akin Apple. Thank you. "
Tyler, change.org

"Not everybody wants to be forced into paying a fee to Google, agreeing to their Terms and Conditions, providing a authorities ID, upload evidence of the developer’s personal signing key, or listing all current and forthcoming use identifiers. When purchasing an Android, installers akin F-Droid served to assistance alongside having a extensively used open computing phase anywhere you could run any application you choose on it fairly than having a ample tech business akin Google authority what apps and shop fronts you can instal from. By making this new alter earth broad to Android, we're ceding the entitlements of citizens and their own digital sovereignty to a business alongside a track document of complying alongside the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to eliminate absolutely lawful apps that they happen to dislike. Google actively has been paying another companies akin Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla Corporation, and Opera to keep their hunt motor as the default choice either pre-installed or following manual installation. Additionally, we’ve seen Google entirely deprecate assistance for Manifest V2 extensions to intentionally obstacle the use of mighty liberated open-source tools akin uBlock Origin to consolidate authority complete the browser ecosystem and defend its promotion income complete privacy and security. Google claims it’s their “job” to do the correct item by “caring” concerning our customers well-being notwithstanding having a track document of being dreadful alongside the two their web browser and document settings. Even downward to the way your Google document is setup and the benevolent of delicate data required fair to create one. To forcefully refuse specified a drastic and unethical change, I’d extremely propose everyone to use F-Droid and instal apps which are either entirely unavailable in the Google Play Store or ones that utilize liberated open-source application alongside an accent on privacy and security. Most of which you’ll discover are extremely helpful apps that do mundane tasks without added bloat and equal precious ones which aren’t Google’s proprietary solution. We as humans have all correct to use any application and hardware is most desired alongside alongside retaining a extremely elevated norm for the two privacy and safety respecting applications, tools, and resources. "
David, change.org

"I am genuinely furious concerning what Google is trying to do by limiting APK usage. This is not several small backdrop tweak. This cuts direct into the logic many of us chose Android in the archetypal place. Android meant freedom. It meant I could instal what I wanted. It meant developers could portion their activity without kneeling before a sole endorsement system. It meant that whenever I bought my phone, it was really mine. We keep hearing that this is concerning “security.” And yes, safety matters. Nobody wants malware. But there is a genuine difference between protecting users and controlling them. Give group warnings. Give them tools. Educate them. Do not obtain distant their capability to choose. I am an adult, completely consenting and capable of deciding what I instal on my own device. When APK use is restricted, everything narrows. Developers get pushed into one authoritative channel. One assessment process. One business deciding what is satisfactory and what is not. That benevolent of centralized authority should create all of us uncomfortable. It changes the balance of power, and it does it under the gentle tongue of safety and convenience. This is concerning ownership. If I cannot openly instal apps, do I really own my device? Or am I fair using it inside boundaries that can change whenever it finest suits a corporation? I barely think it is extreme to say that whenever I pay for hardware, I should have complete authority complete what runs on it. That is not radical. That is essential digital autonomy. And I am not fine alongside observing that autonomy gradually disappear without saying something. "
Brooke, change.org

"F droid is my chief way of installing apps. Blocking sideloading volition basically alter how I use my phone, and create it unattainable for me to use my phone in the way that I have for years. "
T, change.org

"Google has been sued up the butt for monopolizing before, and now they're trying again? And on top of these ridiculous surveillance laws all since a few parents can't observe their children, this is fair a foolish decision to make. "
Kamareon, change.org

"As person who writes and uses my own APKs to create my equipment equal additional helpful to me, this lockdown would be a agreement breaker for my use of the Google Android platform "
Luke, change.org

"This is a horrendous plan. The Android Open Source Project is expected to be fair that... Open source. Requiring developers to provision Id, pay a fee, and enroll to publish application for phones that group own is untenable. This is efficiently making Android as much of a partitioned storyline as Apple. Except Apple does it better. The entire diagram of Android was the openness of the platform. If you eliminate that, we would be improved off alongside Apple. PLEASE do not ruin Android by going onward alongside this misguided plan. "
Alan, change.org

"The commitment was an open and liberated OS "
Daniel, change.org

"This is contemptible behavior on Googles part. I own my device, hence I get to decide what I desire to instal to it. Period. End of story. Some company suite midway throughout the nation shouldn't be allowed to decide what I can instal on my device. We need to remain up to this benevolent of abuse of power. "
Devin, change.org

"1 national lawsuit wasn't enough? This lone scratches the exterior of the equivalent they keep playing. Why following all that's happened, being convicted of monopoly must Google awareness the need to lockdown the one attempt we have at staying personal on mobile? Even if they do desire to collect additional data it volition disbursal them several of their userbase. The conditions of the update solitary are outrageous. Fees & gov't ID? Let's sue 'em again! 😂 "
Zach, change.org

"This guideline is the antithesis of what makes Android the finest on the market. The guideline infringes on our freedoms as American people. I should not have to portion who I am or what I appearance akin or anywhere I live to a business that I don't attention about. The authorities needs to cognize who I am, but a business doesn't. The instant the business gets hacked from anywhere/anyone, they have all my information. That is dumb and should not happen, ever! "
Ayden, change.org

"I never liked Apple's extremely restrictive assistance for their app and mobile OS. I chose Android since of the liberty of customizability and choice, and comfort of access. Do not create Android a wasteland, Google. People who use andriod value privacy and security, during additionally effortlessly being capable to create it improved without worrying concerning who has what data concerning them. Please, think concerning the consequences for once. "
Maygen, change.org

"APKs are exactly the backbone of everything android. Schools who create android apps as a category volition be out of luck. Please keep android open. "
Zachary, change.org

"As a regular person and a small developer, I discover this measure deeply concerning. When I choose to buy an Android phone, it is alongside the anticipation of having authority complete how I use it, not to visage restrictions or censorship. Tools akin Knox and Play Integrity are already frustrating enough, and now it seems that equal downloading applications from F-Droid or another nice Stores have to be checked ?! This undermines the two person liberty and the open soul that initially defined Android. We have ( fine we have to obtain it back) the correct to create, modify, and use apps—and to communicate online—without being forced to provision up anonymity. It is up to users to instruct themselves concerning possible risks, not for GAFAM to decide on our behalf. "
naknak, change.org

"This is exactly why I switched to android. The literal lone reason. "
Ari Siobhan, change.org

"I stayed distant from astute phones in the first days since they were locked down. It was lone following I saw that Android was an open phase that I was consenting to equal try one. If Google locks downward Android, afterward I volition either toggle to a essential characteristic phone, alongside no data (suits me fine, mobile data is ridiculously expensive), or I volition hack together a Linux phone. What's the item in having Android if it fair turns in to a.aecond-rate iOS? "
William, change.org

"If Scroogle were always to obstacle sideloading on Android, it would basically alter what makes Android…Android. Sideloading isn’t a loophole. It’s a feature. It’s part of the open doctrine that initially set Android distinct from additional locked-down ecosystems akin Apple’s iOS. If sideloading disappears, users no longer really “own” their devices, they’re renting approval to use them. No additional installing open-source, privacy-friendly, and rivalrous apps, everything is now strictly controlled and monitored by the data-hungry scroogle monopoly. Here's expecting the EU steps in and fines them trillions this time, 'cause the data-hungry devils operating scroogle (and microsoft too) fair keeps showing that they can't be trusted alongside ANYTHING. "
Raashid, change.org

"Im ill of these souless corps squeezing all cent from us they can! "
Marcus, change.org

"This would seriously bounds any logic I have to use a google certified android phone. Without the capability to effortlessly assistance open origin developers and tinker alongside my own projects -- the android phone would cease to be my "daily driver". These are our computers, and we have to be capable to instal what we desire on them. It's disrespectful to obtain that correct away. Please reconsider removing your hardware's top and most person affable power in the mobile market. "
Kedryn, change.org

"Don't be Apple! "
Wenshan, change.org

"Google is shifting from openness and liberty toward a closed feudal system. This represents additional than fair a setback for application platforms; it is a stage backward for individual civilization. "
John, change.org

"This was why I didn't use iphones "
Greg, change.org

"I've continually akin Google for supporting open source. If Google doesn't not assistance open origin who will? Come Google delight keep being protagonist of open source. I don't intellect all the tracking Google does as lengthy as they assistance open source "
allan, change.org

"Wow, I certain akin it whenever the functioning scheme touted to be for power-users to create unequivocally theirs gets close up. If I wanted to perform it "your way or the highway", I'd go to Apple. This is my device. And I don't need YOUR endorsement for that. "
Liam, change.org

"One of the reasons I use android is so I can do what I desire dissimilar an iPhone. Locking it downward volition create it no distinct from the competition "
Jonathan, change.org

"As others have certainly stated alongside alongside me, the Android phase was continually chosen complete Apple since of the liberty it allowed. Creating another oppressive "nanny" based jail surroundings for customers is not the answer. No "features" or promises of "safety" are value giving up liberty of a formerly open OS. "
Jason, change.org

"Locking downward a entirely liberated and open functioning scheme akin android lone makes the surroundings additional unsafe for the user. Preventing them from having control, and being forced to instal assistance locked bloatware/malware alternatively of giving the end person authority is a clean formula for disaster. It volition be equal additional prone to incursion, and targeting by malicious entities than if it were remaining liberated and open as it has continually been. I have continually been a enormous protagonist for 'you buy it, you own it' merely since that's the way it should be, and has continually been. If there is no ownership of item in your possession, there's no logic for having it in the archetypal place. "
Chad, change.org

"As a kid, I used to think iPhone, and iOS as a whole, was great. As I idea "people don't need alot of things, they have everything they want." Until I had a Google Pixel 6 Pro for Christmas. It became my tinkering device, and allowed me to admission things, I never knew I wanted. And it allowed me to have admission things that normally would've costed my family a beautiful penny. By forcing verification "
Josue, change.org

"Hands off the APK! I remaining Russia for Freedom in 2022 and now you trying to restrict our Freedom akin a offender Putin. "
Alex, change.org

"Android phones letting me authority my apps in my way is why I affection and rod alongside Android. I can't assistance upstart developers without our current APK framework. A forthcoming without among the guide reasons I own an Android phone, is a forthcoming anywhere I fair halt owning a phone. "
Kyle, change.org

"The chief logic I've continually preferred android complete apple is the liberty of app betterment and usage. What's the item of using an android phone whenever I have to depend on an app shop that limits what's available? This decision is gonna power an already undesirable Google "
Mychal, change.org

"I have been avoiding iPhone and using Android specifically for this reason. Why would Google alter item that is operating for them? Why ruin item good? Short sighted and foolish move. "
Will, change.org

"I really liked android phones logic of the liberty they use to have, but alongside this... they are the identical as Apple so.... there's any logic for me to akin Android anymore "
Fabián Jhovany, change.org

"After dithering for ages, I eventually did what I've continually wanted to do, I installed a de-googled android it's, E/Os. Its great! If google persist in this, I'm certain additional non specialized users volition too! I additionally wrote to my mp & to the UK monopoly commission. Search E/Os murena see if you can too! "
ed, change.org

"Android has been the location for group to create and discover... It's extremely safe already, and there's no need to present us all to the latest authoritarian wishes of Google... They desire to have the developer's complete information, to ban you if you difficulty them or create an app that they don't like, but group do. We need to halt this... We appreciate Google for all of what they've done so far... But if they are going downward this path, it's period for a TRULY open alternative... "
javier, change.org

"I chose Android for the extremely logic of it being open and letting me run any application I want. Don’t obtain that distant following I’ve already bought my device. Millions of us chose Android for the exact logic of what you're trying to censor. Don’t fastener it downward since you think you cognize better. If I wanted a business deciding what I can or can’t do on my own device, I’d buy an iPhone instead. "
Paulo, change.org

"If Google does this I volition move to iOS. If stated a choice for locked downward mobile OS I awareness safer alongside Apple. And the way the earth is going alongside all the horrible AI etc.. and company authority of our lives I volition obtain the lesser of two evils. At smallest alongside Apple you can OPT out of Apple intellect during setup alongside iPhone fair akin alongside Mac OS which I lately went to following MS's windows 11. I'm beautiful pessimistic concerning this alter and acknowledge that I volition apt be purchasing my archetypal iPhone in the end of the year. "
Trent, change.org

"I've relied on a third-party adblocker to disable adverts throughout my complete phone, and pulling this stunt would jeopardise specified wishes not to have adverts in exactly all sole use I use. I do not desire the Android OS to rotate into iOS in being unnecessarily strict on sideloading and people's entitlements to download any apps they desire that power not be on the Play Store. Google, you NEED a actuality inspect if you really think being anti-consumer is going to "help" anybody in their lives. "
Finn, change.org

"we need to choice. halt google "
Dhlox, change.org

"Just another stage big tech is taking to obtain distant our entitlements and freedoms. "
Martin, change.org

"Android promised us a choice. We shouldn't let them obtain it distant from users and developers alike fair to have additional control. "
Cross, change.org

"I am not a developer, I am fair a user, and I think it is extremely crucial to say that this does not fair power developers. There is nothing fine concerning locking downward an open ecosystem. There is no fine logic for Google mandating ID Verification apart from pushing their control complete Android. This is disgusting, stated that Android has continually been seen as the liberated haven distant from Apple's partitioned garden. Now the lone way to accomplish liberty is by using a fork of Android, which volition rotate into harder and harder as Google inevitably enforces locked bootloaders. Seeing Android rotate into a Google flavored IOS is fair a huge punch in the gut, and really puts into viewpoint what can be misplaced under greedy leadership. "
Zakery, change.org

"Hi, I've been using an android phone for complete a decade and, akin the computers I grew up with, I've been capable to choose which functioning scheme to instal and anywhere I get my apps/programs from too. There are currently a figure of app stores, beyond those provided by Apple and Google. Sadly, Google has decided (https://developer.android.com/developer-verification) to use their near-monopoly stance in the android market to affect in blatantly anti-competitive behavior by requiring app developers to enroll alongside Google. Google is trying to market this as a "security" but this "security" promotion ploy not convincing nor does it inform the entire story. Further, having put an arbitrary obstacle to competition, Google has decided to accusation app developers for the "privilege" of having the app on android - anywhere earlier there was no specified fee (https://keepandroidopen.org/). Google has stated they volition commencement this from September 2026, so act is needed promptly. As an Australian, I recall the period in 2021 whenever Google threatened to eliminate it's hunt motor from Australians (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673 and https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/inside-google-s-mothballed-plans-to-quit-search-in-australia-20231108-p5eil7) and whenever Google threatened to sue the Australian authorities in 2025 (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/google-threatens-to-sue-if-youtube-is-included-in-australias-kids-social-media-ban/axud666av). Happily, we have not responded to their threats. This is another period to remain up, exercise our national sovereignty and create companies that run in Australia, abide by applicable Australian legislation. Multi-nationals, akin Google, are no exception. "
Colin, change.org

"Literally the finest part of android devices is sideloading APKs "
Michael, change.org

"Just lately i started learning concerning how to instal f droid to defend myself from g00gle and this is what happens?! death to big tech! "
Noor, change.org

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The CEO of Europe's most valuable company says he is tying his pay to employee satisfaction

support@mycoding.id (Tom Carter) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:02:27 +0700

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told workforce it had been a "disruptive and affectional year." Chesnot/Getty Images

The CEO of Europe's most precious company is linking his pay to a individual goal to boost employee morale.

Christophe Fouquet, the CEO of Dutch tech resolute ASML, stated final week that the business volition merge employee fulfillment into its compensation scheme for top executives in an attempt to quell discontent complete a important reorganization, per a memo to workforce obtained exclusively by Business Insider.

Fouquet was responding to the results of an annual study that polled additional than 38,000 of ASML's approximately 44,000 employees.

The study results, seen by Business Insider, display that ASML's employee involvement indicator — a measure of employee fulfillment — cut from 78% final twelvemonth to 73.5% this year.

In the memo, Fouquet stated that the declining employee involvement scores "reflect a duration of important change" and acknowledged that it had been a "disruptive and affectional year" for the company.

He added that ASML's administrator squad had highlighted six questions in the study and blended them into a new Workplace Experience Index, which would be unified into the company's Long-Term Incentive scheme for administrator compensation.

"In the coming years, it volition immediately power the remuneration of elder leaders, including the Board of Management," Fouquet wrote, adding that strengthening the company's civilization and reinforcing its values would be a individual precedence in the coming year.

ASML declined to comment.

ASML's lithography machines are a crucial part of the semiconductor provision chain. Bloomberg/Getty Images

The six questions contain whether workforce awareness they can portion their opinions without fear of retaliation and if they have confidence in ASML's elder guidance team.

Employees volition additionally be polled on whether they have a apparent understanding of their role, whether they think their teams are functioning efficiently and are fine organized, and whether they awareness their straightforward director shows they attention concerning them as an individual.

It comes as ASML, the lone resolute on the earth capable of construction the advanced EUV lithography machines crucial for chipmakers akin TSMC and Intel, attempts to slash bureaucracy alongside a sweeping org diagram reorganization.

ASML announced in January that it could cut 1,700 jobs to decrease administration layers and concentration on engineering. Leaked documents earlier reported by Business Insider display that these ongoing efforts have focused on reducing the figure of managers at the company. The business afterward stated it expected to cut small jobs than initially planned.

Going against tech's 'hardcore' trend

Major companies tying administrator pay to employee fulfillment is uncommon, but not unheard of.

Companies akin IBM and Aviva have earlier included employee involvement in their compensation targets for top executives.

ASML's decision, however, runs oppose to the traditional winds of Big Tech, which have seen several companies embark on relentless layoffs and shove workforce to activity longer hours as part of a "hardcore" operating shift.

Meta was an early, prominent leader of this push, with a sequence of layoffs that began in 2023 during Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency" and, final year, cutting "low performers." CTO Andrew Bosworth at one item suggested that workforce who disagreed alongside the company's direction should "consider operating elsewhere."

Executives have since acknowledged internally that Meta went too far alongside its effectiveness push, alongside Bosworth telling workers that morale at the company was nearly the worst it has always been.

Fouquet's memo to workforce came days before ASML raised its 2026 revenue forecast and pledged to accelerate manufacturing of its distinctive lithography machines as the AI surge fuels surging demand.

The company's machines are critical for producing the advanced semiconductors used to train and run AI models, and the fast buildout of AI data centers has pushed ASML's shares up 45% this year.

One important prospective client for the Dutch resolute is Elon Musk, who is racing to build a enormous semiconductor factory dubbed "Terafab" in Texas. Business Insider earlier reported that Musk gave a virtual presentation to a personal ASML employee gathering in June to throw Terafab, which is a shared project by Tesla and SpaceX.

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Shitter – A Nitter Fork

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:02:23 +0700

A liberated and open origin substitute Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.
Inspired by the Invidious project.

No JavaScript or ads
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no developer document required)
Lightweight (thanks to @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
RSS feeds
Themes
Mobile assistance (responsive design)

Resources

The wiki contains:

List of community instances
Forks of the Nitter code repository
Browser extensions for auto-redirecting to Nitter
Guide: Self-hosting a Nitter instance
Guide: How to get meeting tokens
Guide: Using Nitter embeds

Contributing

This repository does not obtain Pull Requests, but contributions are greeted in the form of Patch files, which can be submitted on an matter and are much additional convenient to merge and activity with.

Why?

It's unattainable to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled, and as of 2024 you need to sign up. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but distinct from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being rearward a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked alongside your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly crucial following Twitter removed the ability for users to authority whether their data gets sent to advertisers.

Using an case of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript during retaining your privacy. In supplement to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average about 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines burden 2-4x faster).

Screenshot

Install

Docker

Page for the Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/mv12star/shitter

NOTE: The published depiction is multi-arch — mv12star/shitter:latest runs natively on amd64/armv7/arm64.

To run Nitter alongside Docker, you'll need to instal and run Redis separately before you can run the container. See below for how to additionally run Redis using Docker.

First create your config file. The Docker commands mount it into the container, so it have to be on the presenter beforehand. If you've cloned the repo:

cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf

If you're using the prebuilt depiction without a local clone, download nitter.example.conf and preserve it as nitter.conf instead.

To build and run Nitter in Docker:

docker build -t nitter:latest . docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network presenter nitter:latest

A prebuilt Docker depiction is provided as well:

docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network presenter mv12star/shitter:latest

Using docker-compose to run the two Nitter and Redis as distinct containers: Change redisHost from localhost to nitter-redis in nitter.conf, afterward run:

docker-compose up -d

Note the Docker commands mount nitter.conf (and sessions.jsonl for docker-compose) from the directory you run them in. If a mounted document doesn't exist, Docker silently creates a directory in its location and the receptacle fails with not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file. Remove that directory and create the document as shown above.

systemd

To run Nitter via systemd you can use this assistance file:

[Unit] Description=Nitter (An substitute Twitter front-end) After=syslog.target After=network.target [Service] Type=simple # set person and group User=nitter Group=nitter # configure location WorkingDirectory=/home/nitter/nitter ExecStart=/home/nitter/nitter/nitter Restart=always RestartSec=15 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then allow and run the service: systemctl allow --now nitter.service

Logging

Nitter currently prints several errors to stdout, and there is no genuine logging implemented. If you're operating Nitter alongside systemd, you can inspect stdout like this: journalctl -u nitter.service (add --follow to see fair the final 15 lines). If you're operating the Docker image, you can do this: docker logs --follow *nitter receptacle id*

Build from source

Dependencies

libpcre
libsass
redis/valkey

To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to instal it system-wide or in the person directory you create below.

To compile the scss files, you need to instal libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev.

Redis is required for caching and in the forthcoming for document info. As of 2024 Redis is no longer open source, so using the fork Valkey is recommended. It should be accessible on most distros as redis or redis-server (Ubuntu/Debian), or valkey/valkey-server. Running it alongside the default config is fine, Nitter's default config is set to use the default harbor and localhost.

Here's how to create a nitter user, copy the repo, and build the project along alongside the scss and md files.

# useradd -m nitter # su nitter $ git copy https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter $ cd nitter $ nimble -l build -d:danger --mm:refc $ nimble -l scss $ nimble -l md $ cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf

Set your hostname, port, HMAC key, https (must be accurate for cookies), and Redis info in nitter.conf. To run Redis, either run redis-server --daemonize yes, or systemctl allow --now redis (or redis-server depending on the distro). Run Nitter by executing ./nitter or using the systemd assistance below. You should run Nitter rearward a reverse proxy such as Nginx or Apache for safety and performance reasons.

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People are vibe coding their way to better TVs

support@mycoding.id (John Higgins) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash alongside posts from group using LLMs and open-source tools to eliminate ads and tracking, reduce bloat so the OS runs faster, and equal entirely alter the appearance and institution of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun — one person turned their TV homescreen into a Pokémon town — I think there’s a flat of frustration rearward it, too. And TV companies should obtain notice.

Several vibe-coded TV-debloating projects exploded in fame complete the weekend. Cleanyourtv (known as tv-vibehack until the 19th), tv-detox, and dumbtv all assertion to accomplish akin things — eliminate sponsored ads, debloat the TV so it runs faster, and obstacle unwanted data gathering that tracks what you’re observing — without hacking, or rooting, the TV. By default, they all additionally substitute the TV’s built-in app launcher alongside simpler ones. Many users are going a stage additional and vibe-coding their own replacement launchers, akin the Pokémon one below.

Most of the projects we’ve seen so far concentration on TVs that run on Android and Google TV functioning systems (such as TCL, Hisense, Sony, and older Amazon Fire products), using existing developer modes and the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to tweak settings and use (and remove) packages. According to the GitHub pages, they can additionally activity alongside several Fire TV products that use a tradition fork of Android (although apt not on the new Vega-based Fire TV Sticks). Because they use built-in developer tools, they don’t necessitate base admission or firmware hacking, and they’re reversible. Even projects that totally alter the appearance of the interface fair use Android’s capability to instal tradition launchers — in many cases alongside an assistance from Claude Code or a akin tool to create the new launcher, too.

As Verge companion Chris Person notes in his Aftermath post, none of this requires AI. These projects obtain advantage of capabilities that already be in Android, and in several cases reinvent the wheel. Android debloating programs that use ADB have been about for years, and so have replacement launchers that create Google TV OS appearance akin Apple TV. AI fair made the procedure easier and faster.

There’s nothing akin accessible for Samsung’s Tizen OS or LG’s webOS, distinct from rooting the TV, which is a entire distinct flat of hacking and equipment control. While there’s a webOS vibe hack for LG TVs that’s according to cleanyourtv, it doesn’t really do the identical thing, basically streaming the Apple TV-like launcher from an always-on equipment on the identical network. They additionally won’t activity for Roku or Vizio’s SmartCast.

These projects, or any OS vibe coding person power attempt, won’t necessarily halt all data collection. A fine essential regulation is that if the TV is connected to the internet, it’s collected at smallest several data. Dumbtv blocks certain manufacturer and ad partner addresses your TV sends data to, but since it’s normally encrypted during transit, knowing what exactly gets sent is impossible. The data blocking is akin to what you can do alongside Pi-hole to obstacle malicious DNS requests on your network.

TVs have increasingly rotate into a method for companies to collect viewing data and assist up ads. By using automatic satisfied acknowledgment (ACR) and digital fingerprinting, manufacturers are capable to cognize what satisfied you’re watching, dispatch that data to their ad partners, and afterward display targeted ads on the TV.

ACR isn’t fair used for ads, though. It allows companies to measure spectators metrics, and it can nourish display recommendations according to what you’ve watched. It’s crucial to note that users need to concur to ACR tracking, and there are ways to opt out of it following the fact in a TV’s menus (although those options are not continually uncomplicated to find). There are additionally options in most menus — again, normally buried — for turning off targeted ads.

But equal following doing that, there’s continually involvement that companies motionless collect several amount of your data and use it in ways you power not be comfortable with. Whether or not it’s true does small to assuage those fears. The weekend of vibe coding, on the another hand, is a way for group to try and obtain authority of their TVs to get the person cognition they want.

There are additionally dangers to vibe-coding your TV. One individual who tried to vibe-hack a Samsung TV alongside Claude bricked it. The lone way to completely evade ACR, ads, or any category of data gathering is to never nexus it to the internet. A firmware download to a USB rod can use crucial updates alternatively of Wi-Fi or Ethernet. If you motionless desire to stream content, a streaming equipment that doesn’t use ACR, akin an Apple TV 4K (grab a last-generation example before the expensive new one replaces it), is an option. But any streaming requires sharing several amount of your data alongside someone to function properly.

The biggest takeaway from the vibe-coding weekend is that the current province of TV OSes has group fed up. Most group aren’t going to halt observing TV anytime soon, but the cognition needs to improve. The ads, the data collection, and the cluttered layouts are too aggravating. AI now allows anyone to code their own solution, and it’s lone going to get easier. If TV manufacturers don’t obtain note and create changes, there’s a chance that users volition create the changes for them.

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This Top-Rated Tapo Wireless Outdoor Camera Is 33% Off Right Now

support@mycoding.id (Pradershika Sharma) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

There’s no deficit of outdoor safety cameras, but finding one that balances video quality, power division life, and comfort of use without pushing former $100 is rare. Right now, the Tapo MagCam 2K+ is on transaction for $59.99 on Amazon, downward from $89.99, which is its lowest cost to date, according to price trackers. PCMag named it the finest safety camera of 2024, pointing out that during battery-powered cameras frequently commerce convenience for common recharging, the MagCam 2K+ avoids that matter alongside a 10,000mAh power division rated to final up to 300 days per charge, depending on how frequently it records.

Tapo MagCam 2K+ Wireless Security Camera

Charging happens complete micro-USB, although there’s an optional Tapo A200 sun-related panel if you desire to evade manual recharging altogether. Video tops out at 2K resolution, alongside a broad 150-degree site of perspective that plant fine for driveways or flank yards. During the day, footage looks keen and detailed. At night, the camera can toggle between infrared black-and-white or color video using its built-in spotlights and starlight sensor. Storage is flexible. You can document locally to a microSD card, up to 512GB (card not included), or you can go alongside haze retention through a Tapo Care scheme starting at $3.49/month.

What do you think so far?

Alerts can differentiate between people, pets, and vehicles, and those intelligent notifications are free, as highlighted by PCMag in its “outstanding” review of the MagCam 2K+. It additionally integrates smoothly alongside Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT, although it doesn’t assistance Apple’s HomeKit. You additionally won’t discover mechanical pan or tilt, but the fixed lens covers adequate dirt for most yards or porches. As for managing the camera, its companion app is intuitive, offering settings for motion sensitivity, alarm activation, spotlight brightness, firmware updates, and more. Overall, the MagCam 2K+ handles the basics fine and throws in a few astute features normally reserved for pricier models.

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I stayed at a 5-star Four Seasons hotel in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. My $1,000-a-night room felt like a skier's sanctuary.

support@mycoding.id (Joey Hadden) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:53:01 +0700

The author's visitant area at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole retreat starts at concerning $1,000 during the winter ski season. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

When I arrived at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole on a muggy day in first September, I imagined it covered in snow. This was in 2024, whenever I visited Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the archetypal time.

I spent one night at the five-star ski-in, ski-out resort. If I always obtain a ski trip, I ideate that my area at this Four Seasons would be a peaceful location to remainder following an energetic day of gliding through powder.

Step inner the 550-square-foot area alongside a starting charge of nearly $1,000 a night during the winter ski season.

Welcome to the Four Seasons Jackson Hole, a five-star, slopeside ski resort.

Guests ski in the winter at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole. Courtesy of Four Seasons Jackson Hole

The 65-year-old inn sequence has a luxurious position and complete 130 locations worldwide, all designed to indicate its destination.

Kim Cole, the director of community relations for the Four Seasons, told Business Insider that the business describes the Jackson Hole location's imaginative as "modern mountain chic," catering to hikers, bicyclists, and skiers in the winter.

After checking in, I explored the area alongside the representative peak-season visitant in mind.

The author's area key cardstock was wooden alongside mountain etchings. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The inn has 106 visitant rooms and 18 suites. The starting charge is $525 in the offseason and $995 in the highest winter season. Business Insider received a media charge for a one-night stay.

There are additionally 31 Resort Residences on-site, built to assist ample groups. These residences have kitchens and up to five bedrooms. Starting prices range from $4,200 to $11,000, depending on the season.

Cole told Business Insider that in the winter, visitant rooms are typically booked alongside energetic guests who act in winter sports, so I imagined how the area would awareness as a skier.

The bed was plush alongside warm, fluffy bedding and compact pillows.

The visitant room's king-sized bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The king-sized bed sat between mixed-material nightstands alongside edgy lamps that contrasted alongside traditional wooden shutters.

With one king-sized bed, the area sleeps up to three adults (or two adults and one kid). The area can additionally be arranged alongside two twice beds, expanding the maximum occupancy to four adults (or two adults and two kids).

The nature-inspired headboard was a mesmerizing declaration piece.

A close-up of the headboard. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The headboard was the standout part in the room. A cherry-wood example juxtaposed alongside a bright-white depiction gave it a midcentury contemporary look.

The depiction was a textured carving of trees that I could awareness whenever I swept my fingers complete the branches. A ray bar glowed below the board, making it easier to see the particulars of the monochrome image.

The bed was so comfortable that I didn't desire to get up — and alongside astute controls on the in-room tablet, I didn't have to.

The tablet had a remain beside the bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The tablet on the nightstand served as the room's authority center, commanding everything from the TV to area service. This amenity was added in the 2022 remodel.

The tablet would be particularly helpful following an exhausting day on the slopes.

The another nightstand held an eclectic rack of books alongside a heated pale color palette.

Books row the base rack of a nightstand. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

Few things are additional relaxing on a snow day than cozying up alongside a fine book.

Luckily, my area had a small choice of biographies, historic literature, and novels, ranging from realistic fabrication to young grownup fantasy.

Publishing dates for these books ranged from 2003 to 2020, but I idea they looked much older. They were all sleeveless alongside a pale or off-white binding.

Across from the bed, a ample TV was mounted complete a rock fireplace.

A perspective of the area from the bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

Rustic drawers were to the remaining of the fireplace, during a contemporary sitting area was on the right.

I noticed all the seating in my area was gentle and cushy, which seemed ideal for sore bodies following an energetic day.

The area additionally had a personal bar alongside aureate trimmings.

The bar and its offerings. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The bar had an espresso machine, neutral-toned pottery mugs, and Four Seasons-branded water.

Beneath the bar, a cupboard hid the mini-fridge. It was stocked alongside liquor and snacks akin peanut M&Ms and gummy bears, which were accessible for an additional cost.

In the marble bathroom, the oversize tub had a bendy ablution caput that made me awareness akin I was in a spa.

The tub on one flank of the bathroom. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The washroom had complimentary Le Labo toiletries.

The washroom felt spacious, alongside a double-sink vanity, a sizable shower, and a distinct toilet room.

The another flank of the bathroom. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The mirrors and vanities were replaced by Wimberly Interiors in 2022.

Across from the bathroom, a walk-in closet held bathrobes, a safe, and several classic, upscale amenities I've lone seen in ultra-luxury hotels.

Inside the walk-in closet. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

I spotted old-school amenities akin a shoehorn and a radiance brush, which I've seen additional frequently in high-end European accommodations than in the US.

The roomy size of the washroom and closet made the area suitable for up to four guests.

The personal terrace seated one in a comfortable lounge chair.

A peek at the balcony. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

I spent several period on the deck, but since I imagined it would be small fun in the cold, I appreciated the sliding pane doors that let me bask the perspective without the cold.

Out there, I had a perspective of the ski lifts traveling up and downward Rendezvous Mountain.

Rendezvous Mountain is seen from the author's balcony. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

From the balcony, I spotted the downhill trails towering complete the resort's courtyard. Looking down, I pictured the green courtyard blanketed in snow.

In the winter, I ideate the biggest luxury of this $1,000-a-night area is hitting the slopes fair outside. If I always sojourn Jackson Hole during highest season, I'll lone splurge on a Four Seasons remain if I'm taking a ski trip.

Brick’s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling

support@mycoding.id (Jess Weatherbed) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:50:17 +0700

Jess Weatherbed

is a news author focused on imaginative industries, computing, and net culture. Jess started her occupation at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Brick, the business rearward the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new equipment that’s designed to assistance you cut rear on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: alternatively of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, akin the OG Brick, this type uses Bluetooth to automatically boot in whenever you act your area (or any another area you put it in).

The Brick Night uses two CR2477 batteries, and you can set a location area of up to 25 feet x 25 feet. Both this and the Brick authorize you to choose particular apps to obstacle alternatively of rendering your complete phone inaccessible, but the throw alongside the Night type is that the blocking happens automatically in the backdrop whenever you act the room, and so won’t interrupt or add new steps to your customary bedtime routine.

Brick’s night type additionally supports multiple users, and all can independently configure their own settings, modes, blocked app selection, period windows, and spaces. Still, the Brick Night is additional than twice the price, and since it doesn’t contain NFC capabilities, it can’t be used for the two location-based and tap-based blocking — which would authorize it to substitute the first Brick.

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I'm a professional declutterer and don't declutter my entire house at once. I get rid of 5 things a day instead.

support@mycoding.id (Julia Williamson) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:49:01 +0700

The author suggests getting rid of 5 things a day. Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images

The holidays are about the corner, and shortly the chaos of hosting and journey volition start. If tidying the home and reducing your clutter are things you idea you'd get to this year, let's obtain the force off and do it as gently as possible, before it ends.

I assistance my clients get rid of clutter year-round. Here are a few strategies to create a durable project easier.

Be realistic

One item that can derail your decluttering project is false optimism. Have you always said, "We'll apparent out the car shed on Saturday and w'll do item fun Sunday!"? Taking attention of material that has resisted administration for years won't be done in an afternoon. There are so many choices to create whenever you're trying to get rid of things, and that's anywhere disturbance and exhaustion create a apparently uncomplicated procedure into one that's difficult to face.

But don't despair — you can create advancement and get things tidied up before next year. Imagine not having this project on your catalog whenever spring's optimism returns.

Slow and dependable is key

You recall the tortoise and the hare? Slow and dependable wins the race, and it volition additionally get your residence emotion additional roomy and tidy. Try the five-a-day (or three-a-day, or two-a-day) method. Put a cardboard box in your rear hall, garage, or another staging area. Choose five (or three or two) things all day and toss them in the box — or the trash.

These items can be anything; on a challenging day, you power get rid of an old dried-up glue stick, a charging cord that doesn't equivalent your current phone, and a stack of expired coupons. When you awaken up one day emotion motivated, you power appearance for five pairs of unworn shoes and additionally choose five books you don't desire anymore.

It power awareness akin these small movements won't create a dent in the problem, but they will. After a brace of months, you'll discover that drawers are small crowded and you can commencement to see surfaces again. Just keep at it.

Do not fear the refuse can. Recycling is important, but at a certain point, things do rotate into trash. Holding on to them since you awareness blameworthy concerning the landfill isn't assisting the planet. If you desire to create a difference, try purchasing less.

Schedule the difficult stuff

Maybe you've got a damaged lawnmower. Is there a location in your community that recycles old equipment? Maybe there's a elevated academy shop category that would obtain it. Maybe a helpful neighbor can fix it up. Spend a small period doing your research, afterward choose a day to obtain the lawnmower to its next home.

Getting those challenging items out of the home is a huge help. Accept that it power obtain a small ingenuity, time, and energy; if you don't anticipate it to be uncomplicated and instantaneous, you won't be so effortlessly discouraged.

Maybe it makes awareness to employ person to haul distant the unwieldy stuff. Great! Just do it.

Gamify decluttering

Waiting for the coffee to brew? Look about the kitchen. Surely there is one item that can be thrown away. Waiting for the ablution h2o to warmth up? Find one item in the washroom you can do without. Try getting rid of one item in all area in the house. Then do it again tomorrow.

Make a bet alongside your partner, roommate, or kid. Who can get rid of the most material in a day or a week? Initiate challenges! Hand out prizes! Turn residence administration into a equivalent alternatively of a chore.

Tidy in phases

Maybe it's not fair clutter making your existence difficult. Look, you're tired, existence is challenging. If your home is consistently untidy, try this: remain up and put 10 things rear anywhere they belong. Glass in the dishwasher, shoes in the closet, mag in the recycle bin, etc. Set an alert for a fractional hour, afterward get up and do it again.

Call it lazy or call it realistic; if the activity gets done, it's done, whether you did it in an hr or five. Who lives in a absolutely tidy house, anyway? Don't let those TikTok feeds fool you; extremely few of us bask curated spaces alongside zero clutter or dust. We're living in our homes, and existence is inherently messy.

Do yourself a favor; expend as much period really managing your material as you do berating yourself for not doing it. You'll enhance your mental health and your home volition awareness better.

OpenSSL 4.1.0

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:42:44 +0700

OpenSSL 4.1.0 is a characteristic publish adding important new functionality
to OpenSSL.

This publish incorporates the following possibly important or incompatible
changes:

Added VC-WIN32-MSVC2013 and VC-WIN64A-MSVC2013 build targets to provide
internal functions for bridging the gaps in C99 norm support
that are current in MSVC 2013.
Added optimized ML-DSA and ML-KEM NTT operations on ppc64le;
optimized ML-DSA operations on x86_64;
AVX-512-optimized SHAKE x4 operations for ML-DSA on x86_64;
AVX-512 and VAES optimizations for AES-CBC decryption on x86_64.
Changed tsget usefulness to use Net::Curl::Easy (from the Net-Curl CPAN
distribution) alternatively of the abandoned WWW::Curl::Easy. Users who rely
on tsget should instal Net::Curl::Easy before upgrading.
Dropped Windows-on-Itanium (VC-WIN64I) and Windows CE (VC-CE) targets
from Configurations.
Dropped no-ecdsa and no-ecdh options from Configure, as these options
did not really disable the implementations. Use no-ec to disable
the elliptic curve support.

This publish adds the following new features:

Support for DTLS 1.3 (RFC 9147).
Refer to the ossl-guide-dtlsv13(7) manual leaf for details.
Support for RFC 8701 GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain
Extensibility).
DTLS assistance in the SSL listener API.
Support for IKEV2 KDF.
Initial assistance for the Elbrus2000 (e2k) architecture.

Known issues in 4.1.0:

#32878
When a DTLS 1.3 KeyUpdate is received, all another outstanding
post-handshake records are dropped from the retransmission buffer.
This method post-handshake records motionless awaiting an ACK (such as a
NewSessionTicket) volition no longer be retransmitted if the original
transmission is lost. A fix is ongoing and planned for a future
release.
#33277
A imperishable obtain nonaccomplishment on a DTLS listener can be reported as
SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ on an accepted connection. Polling and subsequent
accept calls may additionally neglect to study the error, causing applications
to continue waiting following a imperishable failure.
#33278
A retryable compose nonaccomplishment on a nonblocking association accepted from a
DTLS listener can be reported as SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL alternatively of
SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE. Applications treating this outcome as fatal may
close a association that is motionless usable.
#33242
DTLS 1.3 servers may abort handshakes alongside an unexpected_message alert
when a client acknowledges part or all of the server's archetypal flight
before sending its response. This can happen following packet defeat or while
the client is preparing its authentication response.

These TP-Link Travel Routers Are up to 25% Off Right Now

support@mycoding.id (Pradershika Sharma) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0700

A journey router appears unnecessary until you run into unreliable inn wifi, equipment limits, or a community network you’d fairly not use. The TP-Link Roam 6 is built for exactly those situations, and its AX3000 type is currently downward to $69.99 from $79.98 on Amazon, during the cheaper AX1500 is $44.99, downward from $59.99, alongside price trackers showing the two at their lowest prices so far.

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The AX3000 is the one I would appearance at if you journey alongside multiple devices, activity remotely, or merely desire additional headroom. It can provision up to 2,402Mbps on the 5GHz collection and 574Mbps on 2.4GHz, compared alongside 1,201 Mbps and 300 Mbps, respectively, on the AX1500, and it can grip up to 80 connected devices alternatively of 60. You additionally get a 2.5Gbps WAN harbor for faster wired internet, affirmative USB 3.0 for things akin phone tethering, a USB modem, or document sharing. None of those upgrades volition fix bad inn internet, but they create the AX3000 improved suited to heavier use formerly you are on a decent connection.

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The AX1500, meanwhile, motionless gives you Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, USB tethering, and the center travel-router features, making it the easier choice if you mostly journey solo or fair desire a uncomplicated way to get a laptop, phone, and a few another devices online.

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