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  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    effectively pushing users to install apps only through the Google Play Store

    I wonder what this will mean for Aurora and Fdroid etc.

    • thatradomguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      This is my immediate first thought seeing this. This fucking sucks. Part of the whole benefit of something like LineageOS or e (OS?) was being able to use Fdroid to stay away from Google as much as possible. Now this is going to potentially make things weird.

      • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        9 days ago

        doesn’t do anything to f-droid, but probably kills aurora a bit. the developer can prevent their app from being sideloaded. why would one prevent that if they are distributing via f-droid too?

      • Emi@ani.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I hope f-droid has nothing to do with Google play store, thought they are their own store without connection to Google.