Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thay recoined jaywalking to put the blaim of the accidents to pedestrians and take away the road from them.

  How do you suppose that works, exactly?

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like

    The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated

    missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…

    “Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road

    jaywalker was pre-dated by jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws by driving on the wrong side of the road

    debrabernier.com/the-history-of-jaywalking-in-the…

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns

      Maybe try to stay on topic?

      jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws

      So jay-walker seems appropriate, does it not?

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      • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How is that offtopic? It's direct answer to the question you asked?

        https://youtu.be/vxopfjXkArM?si=5u1oaIMrnXsAeTyX

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