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Publishing on the play store now requires giving out personal identity documents (like drivers license or passport), full legal name/phone number/email/tax ID/etc., as well as your private signing keys.
That's a hard nope for me.
I am not an android developer, and privacy wise I don't try to put the toothpaste back into the tube. I would have been fine with everything except the last one. What happens when there is a data breach on Google?
No one will be able to google it because they will squash any results to protect Alphabets share price.
Lol, that would feel like world-scale schizophrenia¹, you know something happens, but there's no proof it's real
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although it would be correct to call it mass gaslighting