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They showed one warning once when I installed Freedroid, and that's it. There was no extra steps needed on each install from Freedroid.

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It was one warning to install F-Droid (to allow installs from the app that downloaded it) and another warning to install your first app from F-Droid (to allow installs from F-Droid). The judge said those warnings were unacceptable. Hence, app verification.

And not, hence, getting rid of the warnings? Because F-droid is going to have even more warnings now.

App verification is what gets rid of the warnings. That is the entire purpose of its existence.

most if not all apps on f-droid are not going to be verified mostly because many of the developers are unlikely to be interested to submit those apps to google for verification.

The judge unfortunately didn't ask Google to solve for F-Droid's use case, but app verification doesn't change it at all except for apps whose builds are reproducible, which F-Droid can serve the developer's signed builds for, and which the developer can register with Google.

Instead, as I pointed out in my original comment, we need to complain about the upcoming "advanced flow" for unknown source app installation. It should not but does require enabling developer mode. It should and does save the user's preferences for unknown source installation across device updates.

That is not what google says. And it's not what it actually does, either. It creates more, scarier warnings in the case of installing an unverified app.

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