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AJL wrote:

> Nanny Google is protecting me from myself...

Maybe they should educate people to create multiple user accounts on 
android devices, so have one account for 'risky' sideloaded apps, which 
can't touch the files of their day-to-day account?

Google appear to show that they trust isolated 'private' filesystems per 
app or per user.