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'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back on Google's Sideloading Restrictions (www.pcmag.com)

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, it's 100% a response to the antitrust lawsuit they lost recently (Epic Games v Google) where they were ordered to offer third-party app stores on Google Play for X number of years. So if they can't have their app store monopoly anymore, they can use this to maintain control and insight into apps sold by competitors, and pretend it's for security.