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‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near (www.techradar.com)
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[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this is a reply from further down that is actually correct:

This is being presented as more doom laden than is warranted. Ostensibly it is an effort to stop less technically able users from installing malware, certainly there will be unspoken ulterior motivations but such is the world we have allowed to grow around us. As far as overarching evil plans go this is quite a benign example.

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Which is bullshit. You already had to enable external installs this is just them even farther encroaching on our ownership of our devices.

[-] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Get that boot out your mouth, you don't know where it's been.

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