To prevent bad actors from stealing confidential user data, Google is planning to introduce new restrictions on the use of Accessibility API with Android 13. This will affect sideloaded apps.
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Google has revealed that it banned over 190,000 malicious and spammy developers from the Play Store last year. Similarly, 1.2 million apps that violated Play Store policies were also removed.
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Google is effectively killing off third-party call recorder apps in the Play Store by restricting access to its Accessibility APIs which were being used by developers to circumvent Google's policies.
