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The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users (gizmodo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Not to editorialize, but I think this is kind of a crazy article. Sharing for the laughs and the discussuon.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

There's always been alternative app stores and sideloading on Android. The only thing this really opens up is a lot more companies could end up with your payment info and I'm definitely not a fan of apks that will now be allowed to force update themselves in the background. That's a terrible idea. So would having to update apks from dozens of different sources.