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Google’s big Android sideloading crackdown has a 24-hour catch – how the new limits work (www.zdnet.com)
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Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago

Yes, anything without Google spy services, aka play services, will be fine.

And even if you have Google spy services installed on graphene, it is in user mode, not admin mode, so it can't control that.