• Lenggo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Its wild that they say this is to prevent people from getting scammed, meanwhile there is a ton of shit in the Play store that steals peoples info, mines crypto in the background or pops up ads every 4 seconds. But yea, this is for everyone’s safety…

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      8 hours ago

      It is not wild in their eyes, they need to find a way to justify it after all.
      But I think that this way they are opening the door to the possibility to be sued or to be considered responsable for what is on the play store. It is not a stretch to go from “I need to verify your identity” to “you are responsible for what you accept to put on the store”. They want control, they will get even responsability.

    • pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Why are you arguing with their obviously smoke and mirrors pr when it’s apparent this move has nothing to do with this line of reasoning?