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

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jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

When you install a ‘.exe’ file in Windows, you don’t call it ‘sideloading’, you call it ‘downloading and installing’.

This is the exact same thing. I download from sites, F-Droid, Obtainium, etc., and install the software that is the file I downloaded. I’m effectively NOT side-anything.

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