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  "path": "/t/google-will-require-developer-verification-to-install-android-apps-including-sideloading/33123?page=26#post_528",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T10:33:04.000Z",
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  "textContent": "well i don’t keep up with google fads so is all news to me, however that doesn’t change the fact that they are still combining the two concepts in their rhetoric to misdirect, and you should be careful to not fall for it\n\nhere is how it goes:\n\n- hey look at this new thing called developer verification\n\n- evil bad developer hide behind anonymity to malware you\n\n- and the poor inoccent users sideload metric ton of malware\n\n- so to save poor innocent users we goona spank that naughty developer, verify him good and make him pay\n\nnow out of all of this every single word is a lie, except for the fact that people do infact sideload metric ton of malware, and somehow this one truish statement is the only thing you decide to single out and argue against, being succesfully gaslit into doing exactly what the author of this article wanted by highlighting it",
  "title": "Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading"
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