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Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann (youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Android_Developer_Verification

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[–] 18 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

That has just always been the case as long as the app in both stores uses the same package string. (Like org.blitzortung.android.app or org.videolan.vlc)

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Wasn't always the case (I think it changed within the past two years), but upon doing research on when it changed I stumbled on this gem.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It's been the case ever since I started using Android (and modded APKs such as old versions of apps re-signed to not update) in about 2011.

    Some of the root apps back then such as Titanium Backup had features to "unhook" an app so it wouldn't appear as installed in the store, but my experience was that it never lasted long enough to be worth doing.

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