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Comment by Kim_Bruning

When I was still on android, I installed F-Droid to avoid the google app store entirely, since the google app store's vetting is -uh- not very good.

The correct move is to remove the (icon for) the google app store from inexperienced user's phones. (I'm dead serious, and it works)

Unfortunately, that's exactly the move that now gets sabotaged by this google change.

So sure I'll acknowledge the very real risk to users that this is meant to mitigate. It does in fact marginally mitigate the precise narrow risk they state, but introduces a fatal flaw in its place. Probably unwise to let naive users use android at all anymore after this.

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