• Dran
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    181 year ago

    Real talk: sideloading is allowed on android in the most maliciously compliant way possible.

    Google restricts what other app stores can be included with devices that ship with play services

    User-sideloaded app stores can’t auto-update apps

    Play protect will flag any app that the play store has hashes of, but was installed by another app store. (Developers cannot, for example, upload a list of valid hashes for their apps to Google to prevent false positives here, effectively making other install routes appear as malware if they’re different.)

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      User-sideloaded app stores can’t auto-update apps

      I think they’ve changed this in recent versions. While I disable auto-update everywhere, Neo Store (my f-droid app) has a setting for auto-update.

    • @iopq
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      01 year ago

      My phone didn’t come with Google play services, I installed them myself