• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    Great. So half my software won’t work.

    Google, just call it what it is. Ad blocking prevention.

    • Humanius@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      This is in no way a justification for what Google is doing, but they came to a “compromise” where you can still opt-in to being allowed to “sideload unverified apps” (read: install apps that didn’t have to get approval from Google).

      You have to enable it in the settings, and then you need to wait 24 hours before the setting is enabled. After that you can continue to run “unverified” apps

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        23 days ago

        What I haven’t seen is what happens to all of the apps I currently have installed when this hits.

        Am I going to have to wait 24 hours to open apps I already have installed?

        Will they all get auto-removed and need reinstalling?

        Everything is written as if you’re starting from new not an existing state.

        • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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          23 days ago

          What happens if I just stop updating android for as long as I can? Quite a few apps on my phone have retained functionality past when their developers attempted to brick them because I froze updates