Ep. 21

Could This Be the End of F-Droid?

Oct 4, 2025

• 1h 42min 29s

Episode description

Our top stories this week:

F-Droid warns that Google’s mandatory developer registration would destroy the project.
Google confirms that there will be free and paid tiers for developer registration. However, FOSS developers may need to pay after a certain number of downloads.
Apple receives another technical capabilities notice by the UK to implement a backdoor into iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection Program. This time, it will only target British users.
AMD and Intel CPU were discovered to be vulnerable against physical attacks. The companies refuse to implement a fix as they are “out-of-scope”.

https://www.privacyguides.org/livestreams/2025/10/04/could-this-be-the-end-of-f-droid/

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Could This Be the End of F-Droid?

Ep. 21

Oct 4, 2025

Could This Be the End of F-Droid?

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