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Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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afaik this was the plan from the beginning, but nobody was reading any of the articles that they never clicked on
That's why I posted this old article. I only heard about it from a hackaday podcast.