It's not about the $25. It's about Google centralizing control. If they don't like your app, oops, no verification for you.
Goodbye NewPipe. Goodbye anything that doesn't align with Google's capitalist interest or American imperial interest.
Goodbye NewPipe. Goodbye anything that doesn't align with Google's capitalist interest or American imperial interest.
Sure, it’s possible they could retroactively ban your app, but they could do that without signing too. Just ban com.anonymous.newpipe or whatever the package name is. The signing doesn’t really change this.