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That's a moron take. Plenty of people have no business downloading random apps. It takes all of 15 seconds with a Google search to side load. It's a fucking idiot test.
But yeah I'm sure if this check weren't there people would flock to fdroid ๐
I think this is referring to recent news that google is trying to ban non-google-play installs (aka: sideloading)
Well that's different. Blocking side loading is insane. But that post is missing context unless you're following that closely.
But they would use the Play store wouldn't they. They're not going to use the "dark web" (aka beyond the first 5 entries on a Google search).