Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
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Your phone is about to stop being yours.
你的手机即将不再属于你。
Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.
从2027年开始*，谷歌将强制推送一次静默更新，届时所有未在谷歌注册、未签署合同、未缴费并提交政府身份证明的开发者的安卓应用都将被拦截。
Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.
全球范围内的每一款应用和每一台设备都将受到影响，且无法选择退出。
In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting in 2027, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their software.
2025年8月，谷歌宣布了一项新规定：自2027年起，所有安卓应用开发者必须先在谷歌进行集中注册，其软件才能安装到任何设备上。这不仅限于Play商店的应用，而是所有应用，包括朋友间分享的、通过F-Droid分发的，以及爱好者个人使用的软件。独立开发者、教会与社区团体以及业余爱好者都将被剥夺开发和分发软件的能力。
Registration requires:
注册要求包括：
If a developer does not comply, their apps get silently blocked on every Android device worldwide.
如果开发者不遵守规定，他们的应用将在全球所有安卓设备上被静默拦截。
You bought an Android phone because Google told you it was open. You could install what you wanted, and that was the deal.
你购买安卓手机是因为谷歌曾承诺它是开放的。你可以安装任何你想要的软件，这就是当初的约定。
Google is now rewriting that deal, retroactively, on hardware you already own. After the update lands, you can only run software that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for.
谷歌现在正在你已经拥有的硬件上追溯性地重写这一约定。更新落地后，你只能运行谷歌预先批准的软件。而在你的手机上——那是你花钱购买的个人财产。
A teenager’s first app, a volunteer’s privacy tool, or a company’s confidential internal beta. It doesn’t matter. In 2027, none of these can be installed without Google’s blessing.
无论是青少年的第一个应用、志愿者的隐私工具，还是公司的内部机密测试版，都无关紧要。到2027年，没有谷歌的许可，这些都将无法安装。
F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, has called this an “existential” threat. Cory Doctorow calls it “Darth Android”.
拥有数千款免费开源安卓应用的F-Droid称此举为“生存”威胁。科利·多克托罗（Cory Doctorow）将其称为“黑武士安卓”（Darth Android）。
Google has a documented track record of complying when authoritarian regimes demand app removals. With this program, the software that runs your country’s institutions will exist at the pleasure of a single unaccountable foreign corporation.
谷歌有据可查的记录显示，当威权政权要求下架应用时，它会予以配合。通过这一计划，运行你所在国家机构的软件将完全取决于一家不受监管的外国公司的意愿。
The EFF calls app gatekeeping “an ever-expanding pathway to internet censorship.”
电子前哨基金会（EFF）称这种应用准入控制是“通往互联网审查的不断扩张的路径”。
Google says “power users” can “still install” unverified apps. Here’s what that actually looks like:
谷歌声称“高级用户”仍然可以“安装”未经认证的应用。但实际情况如下：
Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.
九个步骤。强制性的24小时冷静期。这仅仅是为了在你拥有的设备上安装软件。
Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed.
更糟糕的是：整个流程完全通过谷歌Play服务运行，而非安卓操作系统。谷歌可以在无需系统更新、无需用户同意的情况下，随时更改、收紧或终止这一流程。
If Google can retroactively lock down billions of devices that were sold as open platforms, every hardware manufacturer on the planet is watching.
如果谷歌能够追溯性地锁定数十亿作为开放平台售出的设备，全球所有的硬件制造商都在注视着这一切。
The principle being established: the company that made your device gets to decide, after you’ve bought it, what software you’re allowed to run. In software, this is called a “rug pull”; but at least you could always install competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a single unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist.
这一原则的确立意味着：制造你设备的公司在你购买后，有权决定你被允许运行什么软件。在软件领域，这被称为“撤地毯”（rug pull）；但至少你过去总能安装竞争软件。而在硬件领域，这已成既定事实，它剥夺了你的自主权，使你在一个不受监管的守门人和被定罪的垄断者的心血来潮面前变得无能为力。
Android’s openness was never just a feature. It was the promise that distinguished it from iPhone. Millions chose Android for exactly that reason. Google is now revoking that promise unilaterally, on devices already in people’s pockets, because they’ve decided they have enough market dominance and regulatory capture to get away with it.
安卓的开放性从来不仅仅是一个功能，它是区别于iPhone的承诺。数以百万计的用户正是因为这个原因选择了安卓。谷歌现在正单方面撤销这一承诺，针对人们口袋里现有的设备，因为他们认为自己拥有足够的市场主导地位和监管俘获能力，足以逃脱惩罚。
Ars Technica: “Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy.”
Ars Technica评论道：“谷歌对苹果的嫉妒威胁要拆毁安卓的开放遗产。”
The security rationale is a smokescreen. Google Play Protect already scans for malware independent of developer identity. Requiring a government ID doesn’t make code safer. It makes developers identifiable and controllable. Malware authors can register. Indie developers and dissidents often can’t. The EFF is blunt: identity-based gatekeeping is a censorship tool, not a security one.
安全理由只是一个烟幕弹。谷歌Play保护机制早已在独立于开发者身份的情况下扫描恶意软件。要求提供政府身份证明并不会使代码更安全，只会使开发者变得可识别、可控制。恶意软件作者可以注册，但独立开发者和异见人士往往无法做到。EFF直言不讳：基于身份的准入控制是一种审查工具，而非安全工具。
Nine steps, 24-hour wait, buried in Developer Options, delivered through a proprietary service that Google can revoke whenever they want. That’s not sideloading. That’s a deterrence mechanism built to ensure almost nobody completes it. And since it runs through Play Services rather than the OS, Google can tighten or kill it silently.
九个步骤、24小时等待、隐藏在开发者选项中，并通过谷歌可以随时撤销的专有服务进行交付。这根本不是侧载（sideloading），而是一种旨在确保几乎没人能完成安装的威慑机制。由于它通过Play服务而非操作系统运行，谷歌可以静默地收紧或终止它。
Whistleblowers, journalists, and activists under authoritarian governments will be the first victims. People in domestic abuse situations are next. All these groups have legitimate reasons to distribute or use software without putting their legal identity in a Google database. Anonymous open-source contribution is a tradition older than Google itself. This policy ends it on Android.
威权政府下的举报人、记者和活动人士将首当其冲。处于家庭暴力环境中的人将紧随其后。所有这些群体都有正当理由在不将法定身份录入谷歌数据库的情况下分发或使用软件。匿名开源贡献的传统比谷歌本身还要古老。这项政策终结了安卓上的这一传统。
Apple has been a walled garden from day one. People chose Android because it was different. “Apple does it too” is a race to the bottom and a weak tu quoque argument. And under regulatory pressure (the EU’s Digital Markets Act), even Apple is being forced to open up. Google is moving in the opposite direction: attempting to further entrench its gatekeeping status.
苹果从第一天起就是一座围墙花园。人们选择安卓是因为它与众不同。“苹果也这么做”是一种逐底竞争，也是一种无力的“你也没好到哪去”的辩解。在监管压力（欧盟《数字市场法案》）下，连苹果都被迫开放。而谷歌却背道而驰，试图进一步巩固其守门人的地位。
Maybe, if you’re a developer in the US with a credit card and a driver’s license. Try being a student in sub-Saharan Africa, or a dissident in Myanmar, or a volunteer maintaining a community health app. The cost isn’t only financial: you’re surrendering government ID and evidence of your signing keys to a company that routinely complies with government demands to remove apps and expose developers.
如果你是拥有信用卡和驾照的美国开发者，或许这还行得通。但试想一下，如果你是撒哈拉以南非洲的学生、缅甸的异见人士，或是维护社区健康应用的志愿者呢？代价不仅仅是金钱：你还要将政府身份证明和签名密钥证据交给一家经常配合政府要求下架应用并曝光开发者的公司。
Do not sign up. Don’t join the program by signing up for the Android Developer Console and agreeing to their irrevocable Terms and Conditions. Don’t verify your identity. Don’t play ball.
不要注册。不要通过注册安卓开发者控制台并同意其不可撤销的条款和条件来加入该计划。不要验证你的身份。不要配合他们。
Google’s plan only works if developers comply. Don’t.
谷歌的计划只有在开发者配合的情况下才能奏效。请不要配合。
If you know something about the program’s technical implementation or internal rationale, contact tips@keepandroidopen.org from a non-work machine and a non-Gmail account. Strict confidence guaranteed.
如果你了解该计划的技术实现或内部逻辑，请使用非工作设备和非Gmail账户联系 tips@keepandroidopen.org。严格保密。
71 organizations from 23 countries have signed the open letter
来自23个国家的71个组织签署了公开信。
Read the full open letter and thank the signatories →
阅读公开信全文并感谢签署者 →
“Google plans to block side-loading like Apple, declaring war on Android freedom”
“谷歌计划像苹果一样封锁侧载，向安卓自由宣战”
“Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy”
“谷歌对苹果的嫉妒威胁要拆毁安卓的开放遗产”
“Google’s New Developer Rules Threaten to End the F-Droid Open-Source App Store”
“谷歌的新开发者规则威胁要终结F-Droid开源应用商店”
“Android’s sideloading limits are its m
“安卓的侧载限制是其……”