This won’t increase security.

I don’t know, man. A signature makes the author of the app that fucks my system pretty clear. That has consequences: apps by bad actors can be pulled.

With an unsigned app, we can’t authenticate the package is untampered, and the author can repudiate any fuckery as unauthorized modifications.

because they know exactly whom the devs are and have their government IDs

They already wrote the free developer account for limited distributions doesn’t require those.

None of that is necessary when installs over Android Debug Bridge bypass verification entirely.

Will Android Debug Bridge (ADB) install work without registration? As a developer, you are free to install apps without verification with ADB.

If I want to modify or hack some apk and install it on my own device, do I have to verify? Apps installed using ADB won’t require verification.

Enforcement only applies to certified Android devices, ie, those certified for and that ship with Play Protect, and even Play Protect can be disabled.

This all seems like a huge nothingburger by the willfully illiterate. Look at these illiterates downvote.

According to those geniuses, an opinion poll that 1+1=5 is valid proof & pinning the label “democracy” on something magically makes it a democracy! It’s a real mystery that a higher proportion of people would give the same answer in a country that harshly punishes dissent.