#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.

#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.

#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) is up and running:

* #Fossify Messages heads up
* #SwatchIt to the #knitting rescue
* #LineageOS + #FDroid + #XMPP spell ❤️ in Italian
* #Immich growing pains, somebody is G-ealous
* #LibreTube #MaterialDesign Expressive on the edge
+ 4 new apps
& 137 updates
- 2 archived apps

Flip the toggle: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/30/twif.html

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

What time it is? It's 5 o'clock... somewhere. So here comes the fifth #FDroid legal post.

It's all about content, transparency, and user protections. It features strong tags like #OnlineSafetyAct #Ofcom #DSA and #DMA and how these shape our own policies.

Will this break some prejudice? One way to find out: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/21/navigating-the-digital-markets-act-digital-services-act-and-the-online-safety-act.html

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

I was reading a blog post by #fdroid about the requirements for signed packages: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I think this will be more interesting in the coming years because more people are foregoing using a desktop or laptop and doing everything on a tablet or phone. Even #ChromeOS will soon be replaced with something #Android based. The demand for Android version of apps have never been higher and the inability to use F-Droid on regular Android devices will have lasting effects.

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is alive:

* website categories fixed
* calls by e-mail? #DeltaChat #ArcaneChat
* we caught up with #Catima
* last #FOSS version #DOOM #Wolfenstein #RPG
* sorry Android 5,6 and 7, #Fennec now needs 8+
* #Passkeys by #KeepassDX
* time flies, 10 years of #NewPipe
+ 8 new apps
& 131 updates
- 2 archived apps

Start reading: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/24/twif.html

I was reading a blog post by #fdroid about the requirements for signed packages: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I think this will be more interesting in the coming years because more people are foregoing using a desktop or laptop and doing everything on a tablet or phone. Even #ChromeOS will soon be replaced with something #Android based. The demand for Android version of apps have never been higher and the inability to use F-Droid on regular Android devices will have lasting effects.