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Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year

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Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year

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Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days ago

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Google moves to lock down the Android operating system, effectively stealing features away from millions of existing users.

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Doesn’t help really, since very few phone OEMs have unlocked bootloaders to even enable running custom roms.

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