I want to make it clear: this is not a victory. They will still get to charge developers who don't even distribute on their app store, just like Apple do.
I want to make it clear: this is not a victory. They will still get to charge developers who don't even distribute on their app store, just like Apple do.
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
#HackerNews #Google #Sideloading #Android #Apps #Android #Development #App #Security #User #Verification
🔓 A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification / enaix
https://enaix.github.io/2025/10/30/developer-verification.html
Amazon to start blocking sideloaded piracy apps on Fire TVs
https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-to-start-blocking-sideloaded-piracy-apps-on-fire-tvs/
#HackerNews #Amazon #Fire #TV #Sideloading #Piracy #Apps #Blocking #Piracy #Apps #Streaming #News #Tech #Updates
»Sideloading - F-Droid wirft Google Falschaussage vor
Die Macher von F-Droid teilen weiter gegen Google wegen der kommenden Entwicklerregistrierung aus: Google verbreite Falschaussagen.«
Ich halte mich mit meinen Kommentaren mal raus, denn Rechtlich habe ich so gut wie keine Ahnung aber ich stehe auch 101% hinter @fdroidorg und hoffe dass das positiv für sie entwickelt.
📱 https://www.golem.de/news/sideloading-f-droid-wirft-google-falschaussage-vor-2510-201639.html
#android #google #frdoid #apps #app #opensource #falschaussagen #mobile #smattphone #sideloading
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading
https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html
#HackerNews #WhatWeTalkAbout #Sideloading #TechTrends #AppDevelopment #MobileApps #F-Droid
While you CAN apparently sideload apps on Amazon's new Fire TV Stick 4K Select with Vega OS, it's a cumbersome process that's probably not worth doing... especially since the experience is buggy and the hardware is underpowered. #AmazonFireTVStick4KSelect #VegaOS #Sideloading #FireTV https://www.aftvnews.com/sideloading-is-truly-dead-on-the-fire-tv-stick-4k-select-with-vega-os/
If Google is killing sideloading, then Android is just iOS with ads and spyware. Why the hell would anyone choose that?
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/why-the-hell-does-android-even-exist-anymore/
#Android #Google #Sideloading #FOSS #Privacy #accessibility
If Google is killing sideloading, then Android is just iOS with ads and spyware. Why the hell would anyone choose that?
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/why-the-hell-does-android-even-exist-anymore/
#Android #Google #Sideloading #FOSS #Privacy #accessibility
"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software.
Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority:
- sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon)
- sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds)
- sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt)
- sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify)
- sidechatting (irl instead of online)
A correct text regarding #sideLoading , but with a wrong title.
It's not every argument about sideloading, but the majority of them.
tl;dr: We need better OSes for hardware available out there
https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html
A correct text regarding #sideLoading , but with a wrong title.
It's not every argument about sideloading, but the majority of them.
tl;dr: We need better OSes for hardware available out there
https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html