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I bet a cookie that this will be used to kill apps like NewPipe and Revanced.
But... they could've already done that with current tools? Not like these change the package ID often.
They could, but I think that would be too obvious. Why such system they could flag it at OS level with a big, scary warning and claim it was for security sake.