I don’t think Safe Browing and Scam Detection are the same as this. Both those features (last I used them) allowed individuals to bypass them instantly when the individual chooses to do so.
This essentially says “if you want to download a non-Play Store app you can’t for 24 hours”. Is it the end of the world to wait? Probably not, but it is still annoying that Google is dictating how I use my own device.
Also, even if you want to require identification, they are less intrusive ways to do it. Just do a Github verification and allow trustworthy projects (open-source, >years, >stars)
F-Droid would still work as before on none Google certified system and I supose that people who really care about FOSS will use these system anyway
I think the issue is that it will reduce the potential user base for developers significantly, which may lead to people not wanting to spend time developing apps.
Do you mean user base for F-Droid it self or user base for apps that are only published on F-Droid?
Many apps I see on F-Droid are already only available through F-Droid and maybe Github.
And the people who also publish on the Google Store (which makes it very hard to get an anonymous account) will probably go through ID verfication.
Most developer’s aren’t anonymous anyway, and have their real name at least on their copyright statement.
I don’t want to defend Google in any way, I just say that it will not “destroy FOSS on Android”
That’s absolutely not true for most FOSS développers. Especially for small projects.
I meant the apps. If GrapheneOS only has around 300k users and you add the users of the other non-Google Android systems, I wonder if that may not be enough to make it worth developing something.