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Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?

Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/google-restricts

@purism So even when apps ask for permission and you explicitly give it to them, that's too much lack of security. I mean sure: To scourges like #Google and the government, security means people need to be "protected" by force against their own selves. That's the thinking we see everywhere these days, because we've allowed complete psychopaths in all positions of power.

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