Google is locking down Android sideloading, so I tested its escape hatch

I’ve always believed that an app store’s catalog should never decide what a phone can do. Genuinely useful software can disappear for various reasons, including political, regional, and commercial ones. When that happens, being able to sideload apps manually gives me another way to install them. It also makes me feel like I still own the device I actually bought.

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