I bet this all because of ReVanced and the patches done through ReVanced manager. We鈥檝e seen them targeting the browser. Now they鈥檙e going after phones. They鈥檙e seeing lost revenue, and need a way to remove the loophole that lets people skip their stupid ads.
Nah, it鈥檚 100% a response to the antitrust lawsuit they lost recently (Epic Games v Google) where they were ordered to offer third-party app stores on Google Play for X number of years. So if they can鈥檛 have their app store monopoly anymore, they can use this to maintain control and insight into apps sold by competitors, and pretend it鈥檚 for security.
Slightly unfortunate timing. I don鈥檛 have much hope for the United States of America government to step in and come up with effective regulation right now. I suppose we should do this, yes. But I鈥檇 shift the main focus on developing alternative strategies, once this is inevitably going to fail. Or complain to the EU, maybe they鈥檇 like to get US tech giants under control.