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[โ€“] voxel@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For everyone unaware, enabling developer options already makes your OS less secure, so Google is requiring you to make yourself more vulnerable just to have the right to install any software, not just those allowed by Google. This has been among others confirmed by GrapheneOS themselves:

[โ€“] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Thank you, ''preciate the links