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The privacy and control implications this has is absolutely insane, they are control freaks just like almost every other big corporation. I'd fully argue that what they are doing to us is worse than the supposed stuff that happens to children that "Google" aims to protect them from. I'm sure our children would be thrilled to know that they are going to live a reality in the 1984 book where Google and major governments are big brothers. The "security" reasoning was just an afterthought in this so that they have a leg to stand on in court. ROOT YOUR ANDROIDS IF YOU STILL CAN!! Google is rapidly pressuring manufacturers to permanently lock bootloaders, I know all of this trips play integrity which means lots of apps stop working, but quite frankly it's a bad hand and it's all we've got.