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2 months agoControl and censorship. Imagine a developer distributing an apk that Google doesn’t like, let’s say, emulators, ad-blockers, VPNs (if they become illegal in some places), piracy apps or many others. Just remove their verified status and voilà.
This is awful. Google is quickly becoming a new walled garden, Apple-style.
Sadly, in many of these programs, Copilot will start collecting data if you enable it. And send it to Microsoft, obviously.