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69 points thunderbong | 6 comments | 30 Aug 25 09:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source | bottom
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ilioscio ◴[31 Aug 25 14:29 UTC] No.45083396[source]▶
Google is really losing the plot lately, like worse than ever before. The changes to sideloading android apps is perhaps the biggest red flag they've ever thrown. But the new UI updates look largely silly and unhelpful, but maybe I'm being unfair.
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dzogchen ◴[02 Sep 25 22:46 UTC] No.45110098[source]▶
If you are calling 'installing an app on your own phone without involvement of the vendor' 'sideloading' then you are complicit.
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1. sho_hn ◴[02 Sep 25 22:56 UTC] No.45110186[source]▶
I like this point very much.

That the term "sideloading" has normalized treating this as a special case is a problem.

It's unlikely the terminology can be rolled back at this point, but occasionally reflecting on this is useful.

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2. notpushkin ◴[02 Sep 25 23:09 UTC] No.45110299[source]▶
It sure can. I’m installing most of my stuff from F-Droid nowadays and I’m sure as hell confused why would anybody call this “sideloading”.
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3. sho_hn ◴[02 Sep 25 23:14 UTC] No.45110333[source]▶
Maybe I'm just exhausted by the many times HN has told me I'm tilting at windmills refusing to call the Llamas of the world "open source".
4. throawayonthe ◴[03 Sep 25 09:51 UTC] No.45113957[source]▶
perhaps because that's installing from a store, not sideloading? however poor (security-wise) the offering may be, you're still using the intended install flow

in this sense i do actually agree about the misuse of 'sideloading' - the planned change would not impact just sideloading, but also 'third party' stores

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5. barnabee ◴[03 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45117653{3}[source]▶
If anything, the store download is the case where it’s not installing.

There’s nothing “installed” about something which can be yanked from your device or prevented from working at someone else’s whim.

6. tracker1 ◴[03 Sep 25 17:41 UTC] No.45118517[source]▶
Well, you side-loaded F-Droid in the first place.