Mastodawn

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...

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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨Oct 28

@fdroidorg sideloading is a made up "fault", like the made up crime of jaywalking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Jaywalking Is a Crime

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Chris Real

@donelias @fdroidorg

The story of jaywalking is the story of ALL the capital/corp industries protecting their profits.

Music/clothing/liveEvents are ALL naively cooperative with this very organized industry of entertaining.

Until the biggest profit makers object (Hey, Taylor Swift and friends . . .) nothing will change. But without people calling them out, they will continue to say "But I didn't KNOW . . ."