Hi!
I am really curious to see what are your opinions here on these forums. REcently in the tech news this has been known that by the end of next year or something along those lines, Google will be restricting app sideloading on android, including apk, to make a much closed and controlled system for the same questionable reasons as Apple, security and privacy, while at the same time EU is trying their best to force Apple do the opposite.
Your thoughts?
I am just laughing at loud since I've heard that.
By TheBlindGuy07, 29 August, 2025
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Fruit gardens
The only thing I can contribute to this, is that I read that Pixel has a feature that allows you to lock your device only to the Google play store. As I understood it, however, it was an optional feature.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7391672?hl=en
Samsung has it too
Its called auto blocker and it blocks sideloading, i turned it off
It does a few other things too