@fdroidorg Would you consider #sideload a form of gaslighting?

@FediTips I keep hoping the developer verification #Google tries to force on #android can still be averted. But in any case, what I would love to see as a result of this BS move is, to give the idea of #PWA (progressive web apps) a big boost. But maybe the next step is, that #Google sides with #Apple in another attempt to kill #PWA ...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/What_is_a_progressive_web_app

#FDroid #sideload #digitalautonomy #webdev #appdev

#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

Keep Android Open!!!

https://keepandroidopen.org

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

#android #fdroid #opensource #google #sideload

Keep Android Open!!!

https://keepandroidopen.org

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

#android #fdroid #opensource #google #sideload

#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

Android planning to throw away their advantage over Apple's iOS and ban side-loading?

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/311683/20250825/google-will-block-sideloading-unverified-android-apps-next-year-if-devs-fail-comply.htm

Starting to look more and more like ditching Android for some de-googled OS is in my future. Wonder how all those linux-phones are coming along.

#android #sideload