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Interesting to see Google not allowing people to install benchmarking software on the new Pixel phones.

The comments I've seen mostly focus on how reviewers are blocked from installing benchmarks, but I find blocking normal users from installing benchmarking software to be much stranger than blocking reviewers.

In some ways, this is more extreme than Oracle's stance on benchmarking (https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/), though it's also less extreme in some ways.