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Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism (puri.sm)

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Are they talking about the changes that were made that allow a dev to prevent their app from launching if it fails a Play integrity check?

If so I don’t see that as a big deal since it is up to the dev to use it. OSS devs that want to distribute their app via apk download won’t enable it, and anyone distributing cracked apks will just disable that along with whatever other changes they are making.

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