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No, this is not fine. The is again another barrier to ensure that things are more difficult and scary when you don't use the official play store. It's an anticompetitive behavior again. You are already logged on your phone interface when you try to install so this additional check is excessive. I could have understood to have it just in the case that you don't protect your phone access with a pin. Also, to not be ant…
Every time I want to install a package off AUR I have to use sudo preceding the command. And people want to whine about that.. /shrug
2. You installed Arch Linux. That is a much more technically demanding accomplishment that simply does not equal to enabling sideloading on an Android device.
3. The official Arch repos do not discriminate on the basis of whether a given package will harm corporate interests, or the interests of the Arch development team. Google Play does - for example, NewPipe, which is a far better YouTube client than the official app in many respects, yet Google bans it for commercial advantage.