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Sibling comments has good points to make, but I’ll just say this: very few people side-load apps.

The number of people hurt by side-loading must be dramatically smaller than the number of people hurt by malware, scams, nonsense, and adware distributed in the Play Store. Like… what, 3 orders of magnitude?

Also: security has plenty of nuance, sure. I’m not a politician, but I propose we don’t allow them to legislate things they don’t understand.



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