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Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. (i.redd.it)
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[+] -11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Try a conspiracy theorist forum. It's fake news.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)
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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    That article isn't saying anything I didn't already know.

    They're making it more difficult to side-load; not impossible: The article explicitly acknowledges that Android must remain open and that sideloading must continue to exist.

    F-Droid, Git, etc, are horrible places to obtain apps from. It's in Android's best interests to not make it easy or convenient. People won't read a full proper warning like https://lemmy.world/post/48579911

    It's like the earlier scare on Android based TVs. They disable an app, but you can clone it anyway.

    I'd only get from those sources things that Go ogle wouldn't allow like PipePipe (even that I have no use for though).

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Forcing side-loading through hoop jumping is primarily being used to push people towards the easy-mode method of using Google Play. How much longer before your government ID is required to download apps from the Play Store, too?

    Microsoft was forced to bundle a browser installer in the EU for something that was definitively less onerous than the new barriers proposed.

    Google shouldn't have the right to decide how I install software on my computer, and the idea that we can just install a different OS wasn't a convincing enough argument for the EU, so why is it that you're happy to be told how you can use your property?

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Listen. I'm not interested in your kookie conspiracy theories. If I was, I'd be going to infowars. -Doh! That shit got shut down. -Must be the gubberment!

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Can't argue on merit, so you baselessly dismiss it as conspiracy. No one should have to wait 24 hours to install an application because Daddy Google said no.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You didn't have any merit. You're taking theatrics and conspiracy theory to a tech discussion. Move along conspiracy theorist.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I should've known you'd have a mature reaction. Maybe when you're no longer able to share your "thoughts" freely, you'll finally be forced to be the pleasant person you couldn't manage to be without Brother's firm, guiding hand.

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