You can install apks via usb debugging as normal.

You can't just click a random apk in a website and install it. At least without the 24 hour wait workaround, done once per device.

Free install by ADB, and Developer-moding once per device, not once per app / install? Yeah, OK. I don't quite get the outrage, then.

Before you @ me, HN, I run GrapheneOS. I fully understand and practice "own your own hardware". Most people probably shouldn't, though, because they lack the technical ability / interest to do so safely, and throwing them to the wolves strikes me as ideology pushed to the point of foolishness.

Now, y'all can flame my ass.

> I don't quite get the outrage, then.

Because it's just the beginning.

People are more worried about the inevitable tightening of the noose that will happen from now on. 24 hour delay is just the start IMO. Eventually it will be adb only. Then adb but only valid for a week, like Apple...

I don't really see how gating behind dev mode isn't sufficient vs dev mode plus an arbitrary time limit that google gets to control

We don't know that it's once per device. It's been said by Google that it'll be once per device, but we haven't seen the code and we don't know the method of tracking that. What if I wipe my OS? What if I wipe data in play services? Will a future silent play services update conveniently break my p2p messaging app during a protest?

> What if I wipe my OS?

Almost certainly that would reset this. Why would it not?

> What if I wipe data in play services?

No idea. Is this a thing people do?

> Will a future silent play services update conveniently break my p2p messaging app during a protest?

Google can already do that today.

Okay, thanks.

You can still install unsigned APKs via ADB. Or you can install unsigned APKs following an initial 24 hour wait. Or you can install APKs on non-Play Protect devices