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)

#android #sideloading #google #bullshit

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

"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)

#android #sideloading #google #bullshit

Meanwhile in the real world:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/apps_android_malware/

Meanwhile in the real world:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/apps_android_malware/

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android