This will enable phishing campaigns on an unprecedented scale.
Many people will lose their funds because they do not know where to download wallet APKs and verify PGP signatures.
Sighs another win for centralization and loss for decentralization. Basically decentralization is actually losing every single day that passes and it's not fair. These open source non custodial wallets are safer and better than their centralized counter part and even though the creators don't really make money from them it's sad they're still being targeted.
I think it's high time we had a trusted site compiling all open source softwares for safe downloads especially for wallets.
And what happens when the government starts taking down these websites you have suggested we start relying on? Maybe we should start thinking of building decentralized websites and doing so on a decentralized internet, if there's anything like that. What I think about all this is that the governments are rather too powerful and influential and have built-in structures that you needed far-reaching strategic insight to even begin to contend with.
That's the misfortune of all this. A good majority of people can and will still keep all of their coins on some exchange. So considering the population who actually holds Bitcoin properly, by self-custody, is so low, news like this tends to get swept under the rug with relation to the larger population on the internet. Even if Crypto Twitter can be quite vociferous in their opposition to this.
We simply have to concede the fact that Bitcoin is no longer strictly a peer-to-peer money that Satoshi envisioned. Even those of us who seemingly are holding or storing it properly are doing so for one reason - speculation. We are hoping to get rich with Bitcoin, not to use it as a form of payment. Since the price of the coin is rising and people like us are storing or hoarding it, the government vultures would naturally want to have a share of our 'loot' through taxation. This is simple logic. Is Bitcoin still a currency people use in transferring value? Maybe. Are most people who really know about it hoarding it like gold to 'make a killing' off it? Yes. So the government wants their share of the loot.