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

• ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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  The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The topic was how coining the term “jaywalking” “blames pedestrians”.

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    • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How is it not off-topic? It has nothing to do with the suggestion that the word is used to blame pedestrians as a whole.

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