Nice, if this means easily being able to tell Google Play Services to fuck off without having to do sketchy things to people’s phones then yay. Those are some big rulings, hope none of it gets changed!
I’m a little surprised at the characterization in the headline. I only have a handful of things installed from Google’s app store myself so I felt like the alternatives are out there but I guess for official services’ apps it’s at the brand’s discretion which app stores Google Play Services will enforce they be installed from or something?
There was probably a more lucrative scam to embed, seems like what they did was very low risk for the perp.