diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index c3da1af7d..5079e878e 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ buildscript {
 
 allprojects {
     repositories {
+    //     exclusiveContent {
+    //         // We get React Native's Android binaries exclusively through npm,
+    //         // from a local Maven repo inside node_modules/react-native/.
+    //         // (The use of exclusiveContent prevents looking elsewhere like Maven Central
+    //         // and potentially getting a wrong version.)
+    //         filter {
+    //             includeGroup "com.facebook.react"
+    //         }
+    //         forRepository {
+    //             maven {
+    //                 // NOTE: if you are in a monorepo, you may have "$rootDir/../../../node_modules/react-native/android"
+    //                 url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
+    //             }
+    //         }
+    //    }
         mavenLocal()
         maven {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
@@ -46,17 +61,5 @@ allprojects {
             // All of Detox' artifacts are provided via the npm module
             url "$rootDir/../node_modules/detox/Detox-android"
         }
-
-        exclusiveContent {
-            filter {
-                includeGroup "com.facebook.react"
-            }
-            forRepository {
-                maven {
-                    // NOTE: if you are in a monorepo, you may have "$rootDir/../../../node_modules/react-native/android"
-                    url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
-                }
-            }
-        }
     }
 }