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Just discovered Hail/Shizuku for degoogling my device (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago by sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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What's the likelihood that stopping system updates could prevent the disabling of sideloading capabilities on android this September?

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[–] voxel@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago

Depends. The update will likely be rolled out via Google Play system updates and not a usual Samsung One UI update. Disabling Google Play Services might also be enough to restore the functionality of installing ("sideloading" is a misleading term, making it seem like installing software from other sources is unusual, weird, and "shady").

I also highly recommend against stopping OneUI system updates, since you will miss out on important Android security patches.