Peffse

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Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't always the case (I think it changed within the past two years), but upon doing research on when it changed I stumbled on this gem.

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'm pretty sure that was implemented a while ago. My install of VLC from F-Droid started showing up in Play Store's update list.

It couldn't update since the signature didn't match, but Google knew about it and included it anyway.