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This is not the way. Plenty of apps on Google Play Store, where developer ID is already done, are straight up malware. Google does not manually review all the code on the app store and allows closed-source apps. The way to prevent these harms is to use free open source (therefore auditable in the open) apps that can be compiled by a trusted 3rd party like F-Droid if not yourself. This trick that Google is pulling prevents this because the apps have to be compiled and signed by the developers themselves (after being forced to ID themselves). There are plenty of reasons devs might want to not doxx themselves, and it shouldn't matter when the code is open source and can be audited.