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Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading (liliputing.com)
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[-] entwine@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's not even true. If you install an app through adb, the command is adb install <path/to/app.apk>

adb sideload is for installing OTA packages

Source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/+/refs/heads/master/docs/user/adb.1.md

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