It’s a bad comparison because some people do take the medicine to get the side effects. For example taking benadryl to fall asleep.
Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoWait, so now I have to talk to a doctor before installing from F-Droid? Well, shit.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You are the master of your body, the person who decides ultimately what goes in and out of your body, No doctor can force you to take anything. That’s what I mean, The play store aka the doctor wants to become the master that decides what apps go in or out of your phone, instead of the user. My comment doesn’t invalidate the premise of the use of the term sideloading, because I don’t agree with the term to begin with.
Whether the effect is ideal or not does not change what is chemically happening in the body. The body can’t tell apart side effects from the main ones, so this distinction exists because humans deemed it so, just like the distinction between play store sanctioned apps, and everything else. It’s a distinction that Google is now abusing for it’s own monetary benefit.