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#Privacy#Android#deGoogled

"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

Thank you @grote for sharing this.

In addition to telling #Google that locking down #Android is bad, I'd also recommend every app developer to write to the @EUCommission's #DMA enforcement team and tell them that this practically circumvents Article 6(4) of the #DigitalMarketsAct, which was supposed to enable 3rd party app (stores).

The EC is discussing the same question with #Apple atm and they have to understand what happens if they let this happen.

Contact form:
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en

Not being allowed to install what I want on a phone is like being told I cant make a sandwich with the bread I bought.

#Android#Google#FreeSoftware#FOSS#OpenSource

So I've got #LineageOS flashed on my internet phone. I'm trying to degoogle myself and figured this would be a good testbed. I'll post updates on this thread.

I can already tell the OS is much snappier without all the google play services running in the background.

#android #linux #foss

Android n'autorisera plus que les applications des développeurs autorisés
⤵️
https://linuxfr.org/news/android-n-autorisera-plus-que-les-applications-des-developeurs-autorises

C'est une déclaration de guerre.
il va y avoir des conséquences concrètes. Pour nous. Et surtout pour nos amis nos familles moins à l'aise techniquement.
Il y a urgence à sortir de ce monde capitaliste atroce.

#Informatique
#Android
#Développement
#App
#LogicielLibre
#Capitalisme

Ich bin nicht sicher, ob allen die Implikationen der Registrierungspflicht für Entwickler.innen von #Android klar sind: https://www.heise.de/news/Android-Google-verbietet-anonyme-Apps-10617479.html

Zwar mag es sein, dass es etwas weniger #Malware unter Android geben dürfte, doch das eigentlich Ziel scheint ein anderes zu sein:

Google schließt Schritt für Schritt sein System ab. Man will unliebsame Konkurrenz (u.a. #FDroid) und auch Apps loswerden. Devs von Apps wie #Revanced, #NewPipe, diverse Tracking- und Adblocker wird Google sicher nicht ohne weiteres mehr gewähren lassen. #Google gängelt schon jetzt insbesondere Projekte wie #Conversations oder #Öffi über den #PlayStore. Auch an anderen Stellen wird die Offenheit eingeschränkt, um freie Alternativen langfristig in Ketten zu legen.

Wir brauchen dringend eine breit aufgestellte Kampagne, die sich gegen diese gefährliche Entwicklung stemmt. ✊ @fsfe @edri @fsf @Framasoft @Datenpunks @digiges @Endof10 @fdroidorg

Android n'autorisera plus que les applications des développeurs autorisés
⤵️
https://linuxfr.org/news/android-n-autorisera-plus-que-les-applications-des-developeurs-autorises

C'est une déclaration de guerre.
il va y avoir des conséquences concrètes. Pour nous. Et surtout pour nos amis nos familles moins à l'aise techniquement.
Il y a urgence à sortir de ce monde capitaliste atroce.

#Informatique
#Android
#Développement
#App
#LogicielLibre
#Capitalisme

"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

Thank you @grote for sharing this.

In addition to telling #Google that locking down #Android is bad, I'd also recommend every app developer to write to the @EUCommission's #DMA enforcement team and tell them that this practically circumvents Article 6(4) of the #DigitalMarketsAct, which was supposed to enable 3rd party app (stores).

The EC is discussing the same question with #Apple atm and they have to understand what happens if they let this happen.

Contact form:
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android#Google

Ich bin nicht sicher, ob allen die Implikationen der Registrierungspflicht für Entwickler.innen von #Android klar sind: https://www.heise.de/news/Android-Google-verbietet-anonyme-Apps-10617479.html

Zwar mag es sein, dass es etwas weniger #Malware unter Android geben dürfte, doch das eigentlich Ziel scheint ein anderes zu sein:

Google schließt Schritt für Schritt sein System ab. Man will unliebsame Konkurrenz (u.a. #FDroid) und auch Apps loswerden. Devs von Apps wie #Revanced, #NewPipe, diverse Tracking- und Adblocker wird Google sicher nicht ohne weiteres mehr gewähren lassen. #Google gängelt schon jetzt insbesondere Projekte wie #Conversations oder #Öffi über den #PlayStore. Auch an anderen Stellen wird die Offenheit eingeschränkt, um freie Alternativen langfristig in Ketten zu legen.

Wir brauchen dringend eine breit aufgestellte Kampagne, die sich gegen diese gefährliche Entwicklung stemmt. ✊ @fsfe @edri @fsf @Framasoft @Datenpunks @digiges @Endof10 @fdroidorg

Good luck justifying this under the #DigitalMarketsAct. Google doesn't get to gate keep what we install on our devices. They may be able to get away with it in the US, but not here in Europe.

#EUpol#Google#Android

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

***** Google's plans to restrict sideloading on Android are an authoritarian wet dream come true *****

Let me be really clear about how horrifically dangerous #Google's plans are to restrict #Android sideloading to "verified developers" (that is, entities for which Google has full verified identity and associated information that they could hand over to authorities on demand).

This means that even though you own your Android device, you cannot install apps obtained from ANY source (except perhaps apps you build yourself that will only be permitted to run on your own device) unless Google knows pretty much everything about who created that app.

The ways that this could be abused are so numerous I won't even start listing them here, other than to note that it is absolutely horrific overreach by Google and at least appears to be Google bending over for abusive government demands, and could put already vulnerable individuals and groups at even more risk.

Absolutely disgusting.

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