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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

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424 points josephcsible | 3 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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moffkalast ◴[13 Oct 25 16:42 UTC] No.45570439[source]▶
As with manifest v3, Google is once again misusing their position as a source of open standards to benefit their adware business. Hopefully the EU fines them once again.

A weird hill to choose to die on given that in practice it's not really a meaningful percentage of people that are using adblockers and the negative PR they get from these oversteps is massive.

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1. bitpush ◴[13 Oct 25 17:50 UTC] No.45571283[source]▶
Didnt EU rule that it was OK for Apple to do, and Google is just just mirroring that?
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2. gpm ◴[13 Oct 25 18:01 UTC] No.45571429[source]▶
I believed the EU specifically ruled that Apple's rules which include this are NOT ok. And they're currently fighting Apple about it. Unless I missed something.
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3. petre ◴[13 Oct 25 18:44 UTC] No.45571914[source]▶
At least these user hostile actions are a source of income for the EU.