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GrapheneOS calls out Google for their recent actions (i.imgur.com)

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Sideloading is fundamental to Android, and it's not going anywhere. As we said in our blog, our new developer identity requirements are designed to protect users and developers from bad actors, not to limit choice. We want to make sure that if you download an app from a developer, regardless of where you get it, it's actually from them. That's it.

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[–] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After META and Yandex had their long established and trivial-to-implement cookie tracking abilities (Localhost->HTTP(S)/WebRTC) exposed a few months ago, I have been waiting for some changes to come along to try and lock out potential snoopers who might figure out how they are now de-anonymizing phone users and tracking their web habits.

Preventing sideloading, combined with moving some of the dev internal, both seem like moves toward this end to me. But what do I know, I have never even owned a smartphone.

[–] kimchi@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Facebook's app is in Play Store. Google knew FB was violating ToS for months.
Blocking sideloaded apps would have done nothing against that.

Unless the take is: Google wants to know who, exactly, they are permitting to do crimes on your phone. They don't like the not-knowing part.