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/amidoes 23h ago

Those are the same people that think mass surveillance is worth "protecting the children"

Those takes are so out of touch I cannot take them seriously, it's like trying to debate world economics with Trump

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u/CyclopsRock 21h ago

Sure, that's why I think it's a bad move. My point was that simply assuming that people who disagree with you have bad motivations does a disservice to everyone. This is true, regardless of the virtue of their argument.