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		yakak on Nov 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Curation and decentralization is better than milli... Huh? AFAICT there's no longer an authorized Android process to replace your phone off of their cloud. You ran an app from one of your phone vendors and they copied whatever they wanted to?

thijser on Nov 28, 2022 [–]

I guess the process was driven by my new phone: Google Pixel 6a. I guess Google's "we'll get you started by copying everything off your old phone" process can do whatever it wants, but it surely didn't explicitly say "we'll only copy Google Play apps" in a way that I noticed.

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