Android apps to start forcing Google Play?

I saw this article a little while ago and have waited to see if anyone else here posts about it. Since I sideload most of my Android apps from Aurora Store, will this become a thing of the past? What roadmap does that leave for SFOS users? MicroG required for everyone?

is using aurora really sideloading ?
imho not

installing from f-droid rather or ?

It kinda is, some apps have already been doing that (wild rift for example) looks like it will be now just easier, so more apps will follow, but who cares, if a fart app requires google play services to serve you ads it was probably a shit fart up to begin with, banking apps/gov id apps have been doing this also, nothing to do here except letting them know they lost a customer/voter (then again you can still install opengapps, we’ll see if this counts as proper install)

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I smell a competition cause coming up. Seriously, after decades of big g and m$ complaining about apple’s walled garden, now they pull the same trick? Gtfolmao.

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