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Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

a year ago by ardi60 to c/technology

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Android will block users from sideloading apps made by unverified developers next year, but we may have found a workaround.
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gnuplusmatt 115 points a year ago

I'm not sure why google is over engineering this, proper mainline distros have this solved since forever. Let the community setup trusted repos with gpg keys, then let me trust the repos. If Fdroid trusts the package and I trust Fdroid, who should care?

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olsonexi 76 points a year ago

Because it was never actually about security to begin with. That's obviously BS. Google just wants control.

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