"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

"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

Age verification of Android programmers and the Google app Store. The history and what it will bring, when enforced next year

IMHO
Arcane methods of each verification never work. Just like the only way you can block your kid, from certain places on the internet, is by blocking the internet entirely or blocking the access to the data on your Raspberry Pi, which becomes the Gateway, there's no way this will properly work

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

#Alphabet#Google #programming#AgeVerification #sideloading