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> There are a lot of qualifiers on this: Only in Singapore, only on apps requesting certain permissions frequently used by scams, and only when downloaded via certain paths.

Only certain permissions actually matter. That's one of three.

But "only in singapore so far" is not reassuring.

And "downloaded via certain paths"? Browsers and file managers are the normal ways to put files onto a phone. That doesn't reassure me at all.



Browsers and file managers are absolutely not the "normal ways" to put apps in a phone however.


Well sure but "app store" is already excluded by the context of sideloading.




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