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Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder (www.techspot.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] berty@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

So this sucks obviously. Will this also affects apps from alternate appstores like F-Droid or only APK's? I mean F-Droid already signs the apps, right? I'm a little confused.

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

It's all about herding people by dictating the path of least resistance.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use GrapheneOS (Lineage OS and CyanogenMod before that) and I'm perfectly happy with just alternative software installation sources.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My entire job depends on such an app, so this is a bit of a relief.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

afaik this was the plan from the beginning, but nobody was reading any of the articles that they never clicked on

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

That's why I posted this old article. I only heard about it from a hackaday podcast.

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