That sounds like a one way ticket to anticompetitive lawsuits from the FTC

As much as I'd this to be true, sadly Google does not care. Easy example that I can think of: access google.com from chrome and Firefox (on Android). At least until a few months back, it still had that ancient UI on Firefox. Changing useragent, of course, made it the "modern" version.

Who will, or even can, bell the trillion dollar cat?

Edit- just tried with Firefox Focus, and sure enough, it's the "old" UI. Screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/dfRvBIW.png (With chrome it's the regular/modern one but I was logged in and couldn't screenshot in incognito)

According to the article this seems allowed:

> [...] This restriction does not apply to code that runs in a virtual machine or an interpreter where either provides indirect access to Android APIs (such as JavaScript in a webview or browser).

Also blocking Firefox to install an APK would be anti-competitive, because Google's own Chrome also allows APK installations.

They (like most big tech) don't care because they know nothing will ever be done about it

>Google's own Chrome also allows APK installations

For the time being.

This is intended functionality. How do you think malware can spread if the browser does not install it automatically ?