Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
ideonek@piefed.social 2 days agoAnd companies ofted do it. Thay recoined jaywalking to put the blaim of the accidents to pedestrians and take away the road from them. They change what littering means in attrmpt to delute the responsibility for polution... We are better than that this time, right?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
How do you suppose that works, exactly?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…
“Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
debrabernier.com/the-history-of-jaywalking-in-the…
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Maybe try to stay on topic?
So jay-walker seems appropriate, does it not?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s extremely on topic for the thread you responded to.
Google has a concerted effort to make “sideloading” bad, so they can remove it without public backlash
The next comment in the chain mentioned how auto manufacturers did the same thing, villainizing people using public spaces by calling it “jaywalking” until it became illegal to walk on public roads
That was done to take public spaces away from pedestrians and give it to cars
This is being done to take software outside of Google Play away and give the only profit to google
ideonek@piefed.social 2 days ago
How is that offtopic? It's direct answer to the question you asked?
https://youtu.be/vxopfjXkArM?si=5u1oaIMrnXsAeTyX