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Comment by grepex

12 hours ago

Agreed. "Sideloading" has been marketed as a boogeyman opening doors to malware, when in fact malware exists on the play store anyway.

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NoPicklez  6 hours ago

It hasn't been marketed that way, its a term which differentiates installing apps from the app store and installing them outside of it.

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