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May 18, 2022 06:44 pm
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/18/1843221/google-blocks-file-manager-total-commander-from-allowing-users-to-sideload-apps?utm_source=rss1.0main
Google Blocks File Manager Total Commander From Allowing Users To Sideload Apps
An anonymous reader shares a report: Total Commander has been around since the 90s, eventually expanding into Android after the platform launched over a decade ago. The app has more than 10 million downloads on the Play Store, still supporting OS versions as far back as Android 2.2. With a new update, developer Christian Ghisler has removed the ability to install APK files on Android, blaming Google Play policies in the patch notes for the app. It's a shocking twist for the service and, seemingly, a bad omen of things to come for other mobile file managers. A forum post from Ghisler sheds some more light on what's going on here, as Google sent him a notice warning of his app's removal from the Play Store within a week if the app went unmodified. The company's automated response pointed the developer to the "Device and Network Abuse" policy.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/18/1843221/google-blocks-file-manager-total-commander-from-allowing-users-to-sideload-apps?utm_source=rss1.0main
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