alt Hacker News> On Android, you can install any app from any third-party store without having any accounts. There's a store called Aurora Store that even lets you install apps from golgle's Pay Store without an account as well.
I thought Google recently announced changes to this requiring a developer account to side load.
Yes, Google did announce of the plans, but those changes aren't active yet, and they plan to start enforcing them in only several APAC countries where sideloading is far too popular and gets abused far too much.
Hopefully, they'll see just how ineffective their measures are, and abandon before applying the plans to the rest of the world.