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I can already tell this is going to be one of those conversations you get online where people are just itching for somebody to defend the position they want to argue against and will just have that argument regardless of what the other side says.

But because I'm a very flawed person I'll still go for it and note that technically if F-Droid is the one signing all the apps and Google doesn't like one of them, they'd have to ban F-Droid's entire account, not just the one app. Anything else would require them to look at the apps in the first place, which in this scenario they are not doing.

But it's certainly possible that they'll ban a specific developer (or a store if the store is doing the signing), and that's one of the reasons why this scheme is unacceptable.

What it is not is an approval process, since... you know, they're not looking at the apps themselves. Words mean things.

Presumably, at least nominally, Google wants the signatures to be able to tie an app to a developer. Whether they are going to ban people proactively or not we simply don't know because their stupid policy is barely communicated and they seem to intend to get it rolling before addressing any of these because Apple already used this loophole successfully so why the hell not, I suppose.