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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 38 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Calling installing applications on your own hardware "Sideloading" really grinds my gears. Ugh.

I know Google was lost a long time ago, but it's a bit sad to see Android go down this path. Was good for the twenty or so years it lasted. Miss my HTC.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Way back in the day when it was introduced, I had no idea what they meant with sideloading. Then when I understood that it was installing software, I thought that there had to be some form of special process or something like that, because it had such a strange name...

    Then I figured out it's just a ploy so that people don't get any ideas about their phone actually being theirs, and that it's just installing software as far as they allow you to, on your own fucking device.

    It's all about control, yet again

    Fuck these fucktards.

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