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Paolo Rotolo

Android Engineer at N26 in Berlin, co-host of The Developers' Bakery podcast and open source contributor.

Oct 15, 2026

13:04
And yeah, it's kinda sad.
13:07
Yeah, I mean, I, I feel your pain.
13:09
Uh, I'm a power user as well, but, uh, I mean, for us, if you really want to install an app, uh, you can just ADB sideload it and, or wait a day.
13:18
So yeah, that's an issue.
13:20
Uh, but like the main issue that I see, uh, and the main issue also with, with that campaign that the campaign supports is that Google now has power of choosing which developers are allowed to publish apps, not only in the Google Play Store, but also in alternative stores.
13:37
And, uh, I read so many horror stories on, uh, on Reddit, on other forums online of Google mistakenly banning developers-
16:26
Like I, I mean, again-
16:28
Even, even with this verification, this, um, verification, they've been sending, uh, warnings since, I guess, half a year, and it's not, uh...

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