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Google’s big Android sideloading crackdown has a 24-hour catch – how the new limits work (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This needs to be posted everywhere on lemmy before it happens.