GrantsGhost comments on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

That sounds like just changing who is verifying the developer. Whether it's the EFF (because they aren't going to put their name and reputation at risk for unreviewed source code) or google, the issue is the same.

Someone has to be the middle man in deciding what is allowed to be installed.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social -5 points 1 year ago

No one said it would be shut down, the thing all these clickbait articles leave out of the headline is "as we know it", which means it will change significantly.

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[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Sorry, you're well out of the loop on this one, boss. Sideloading has been common practice for thousands? millions? of users since the beginning of android. There are plenty of apps not listed on Google Play - the ones that come top mind are Fortnight for a time and now the Epic Games Store app, and some VPN apps that couldn't offer features like ad/malware blocking in their Play store versions. Sideloading means downloading an executable install file (an .APK file in this case) rather than installing from Google Play. And they are SEVERELY limiting this ability next year.

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[–] uzay@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think people got your point. I assume you meant that people aren't "sideloading" in android yet, because you just download an APK file and install it. Same as installing an EXE file in windows outside of the Microsoft Store is not called "sideloading" either.