>The only way to combat this is the same way to combat toilet paper shortages.
I buy one hard disk, AI company busy 40% of global supply. Me not buying that one hard disk is not going to change anything.
>According to Western Digital, thanks to a surge in demand from its enterprise customers, the consumer market now accounts for just 5 percent of the company's revenue.
>And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore and hundreds of copy cat, misleading apps?
The rules don't apply to billion dollar corporations. Meta is showing 15 billion scam ads per day.
F-Droid needs to step in and take action like they did with simple mobile tools. If there is a change in ownership, the app should not be updated anymore.
Once the new restrictions come into affect, all it takes is a false positive from an algorithm and you would lose the right to develop applications forever.