Google will be banning sideloading from unverified developers in the upcoming year. What that means is that "stock" Android that comes pre-installed on Android devices won't be able to access unverified third party applications effectively destroying user freedom and becoming more akin to iOS.The only way you could avoid all of this would be using a custom ROM on your device since ROMs aren't dependent on Google Play services, but for that you need to unlock the bootloader. You can check this link to see which brands allow you to unlock the bootloader of your device:https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shameOnly buy from brands that allow you to install a custom ROM. Alternatively, some brands, such as Fairphone, actually allow you to buy a phone with one of those ROMs already pre-installed onto your device.
So they're just gonna ignore this?https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores
>>106457026yes, what are are they gonna do about it?a million dollar a day fine?lmao
>>106457026Basically. They couldn't care less
>>106456998to sideload apple you basically just use developer apps and allow self signed software on your phone. you have to enable every developer option, install it from iCloud, sign the package, then you can use it.you must resign the package every 7 days.it's cumbersome but can be automated.
>>106456998OP was a great fren today
>>106457026They will, and will do the bare minimum to allow "sideloading" like Apple did in the EU, which basically still requires developers to register with apple to develop and upload apps to alternate stores.The only way to actually stop this is to lobby against it and actually organize IRL. I urge American anons to send letters to your state representatives and congress, this is a clear cut case of solidifying their monopoly and having a chokehold on the Android ecosystem by Google.You can whine and moan all you want, Google won't do shit until the government steps in.
>>106457267Just use signulous
>>106457570I'm simply never upgrading past Android 10 until Google fixes USB OTG camera permissions on all remaining Android 10 devices in the wild.
>>106457672Lame, you realize that won't last forever? Android 10 is going to be deprecated at any time, it's soon to be 7 years old at this point. I see people bitch and cry, but won't do anything impactful IRL. I might as well buy an iPhone if nothing gets done.
>>106456998>sideloadingWe call it "installing". There is no hack or special tool involved unlike in applel, we just click on an apk and install it. It was possible since always and should stay possible.
>>106457744Nobody deprecates android versions unlike in windows. It is always faggy app devs who deprecate on their own, at the cost of leaving out a few million 3rd world users. Unlike in windows, raising the minimum supported sdk rarely results in a reduction in lines of code, since new projects normally use the app compat library anyways. So very few devs feel the need of removing support for an OS level.
>>106456998>sideloadingrefrain from using goyspeak please. This has been forever called "installing software".
The state of mobile phones is so dire. What are the best options for GNU freedom when buying a phone?
>>106458593https://fsfe.org/activities/android/liberate.en.html
>>106458527stop being stupid, it means installing software not via the normal intended method, extracting software from tarballs on a debian based distro would be considered sideloading too because you're not using the package manager.
>>106459890He does have a point, though, and it applies to your counter-point, too (as you see it). The language *has changed* from what the base assumption of "installing software" even means. Instead of it being generic in the context of phones, its now basically a loaded term to mean installing in the very narrow way you're told you're allowed to (for your protection). Instead of having the freedom to run code as you see fit, you're told where and how you're allowed to. "Installing software" should mean installing software, and as Apple and now Google narrowly define it should instead be the noted exception with its own term (gardenloading maybe?).This doesn't really apply in the same way to package managers though because you really do have the freedom to run whatever you want outside of it, and doing so carries exactly zero of the connotations sideloading would. You're not really "going around the side"
>>106456998Finally a solid undeniable reason to fucking bin my phone bring my 4G "Nokia" phone out of retirement and buy a steamdeck
>>106457026jewgle is an nsa front end company. they will just pass the fines onto the american public whom they abhor anyway. the only way such an outcome will matter is if it's settled in blood. odds are if its epic and jewgle its epic thats going to lose. they wont die for our freedoms.
>>106457570>um mr congressmen the organizational arm of your wrath against us is chocking us to death using one of their front companies again, can you maybe stop doing this so we can force you to release all the pictures of the kids you eat?how stupid are you? no really.
>>106456998You can just disable Google Play Protect, retard.
>>106460804then your mandatory bank and online ID apps won't run any more, and neither will RCS or Whatsapp
>>106461313>spewing bullshitkys
>>106458455 >>106458527 I know, I just titled it like that because that's what articles call it so it will be easier to reference them to this post. I'm well aware that sideloading is a stupid term that doesn't really do any of this enough justice. The only reason I use the goyim word is because I want people to have an easier reference with information that's not on 4chan.
>>106456998thank god I'm an iPhone user with 0 google apps installed
>>106462065>I already have the same problem Android users will have, but worse>thank GodWhy are iTards like this?
