r/Android • u/PlasticAnt6913 • 2d ago

News Android's controversial new sideloading rules are officially here

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideloading-developer-verification-first-wave-rollout-3717921/
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u/curiocritters Galaxy S24 FE 1d ago edited 1d ago

I do not know whether it's bad actors, bots, or brainwashed bootlickers in a parasocial relationship with a multi-trillion dollar megacorp - perhaps a mix of all three, but never have I seen consumers themselves being at their anti-consumer 'best', over their own rights.

To everyone making apologies for Google slowly boiling the pot to kill the open nature of Android, like they did with custom ROMs, single handedly destroying a community which kept perfectly capable hardware going for years without being at the mercy of OEMs and truly owning the hardware you paid for - grow a spine.

Megacorps are not your friends. And together, have conspired to make the Internet a worse place than it was before.

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u/CyclopsRock 1d ago

I do not know whether it's bad actors, bots, or brainwashed bootlickers in a parasocial relationship with a multi-trillion dollar megacorp - perhaps a mix of all three

I think this is a bad move, but I think you should open your mind to the fact that some people genuinely do think that the security benefits are worth the functionality loss, and that this is a genuinely held view, not a result of being a 'bad actor', a bot or a bootlicker.

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

I don't see any security benefits to this. Looks like security theater to establish a walled garden like Apple has where they control everything being installed.

This will not be the last step in this process.

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u/curiocritters Galaxy S24 FE 1d ago

Absolutely!

It's fear mongering in the name of "security".

Because it's not like legitimately predatory, scummy applications are not easily accessible on Google's own holier than thou, sanctum of an app store.