F-Droid sagt, Google lüge über die Zukunft des Sideloadings auf Android
https://www.howtogeek.com/f-droid-says-google-is-lying-about-the-future-of-sideloading-on-android/
F-Droid sagt, Google lüge über die Zukunft des Sideloadings auf Android
https://www.howtogeek.com/f-droid-says-google-is-lying-about-the-future-of-sideloading-on-android/
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Google is killing sideloading. This will make things a lot harder for everyone who makes apps. You need your name, address, phone number, country and ID verification.
A lot of people have used and created these apps anonymously to protect their identity from regimes and dictators especially when it comes to clean ways of communicating with each other with many being 3rd party email, vpns, chat and phone services…etc. And most people in those places in the world do not have a computer…. most often people only have a phone.
There are other issues too for those who want to thrive outside of government reach.
If you make an adblocker, you can be liable for damages in some countries. If you make the wrong app…even a simple „encrypted“ communications app, you can be arrested for breaking certain laws and extradited., if you make a torrent tracker, you might go to jail. If you make an app that can have algorithmic based trading, you can get sued by financial firms that can claim copyright to basic aspects of the app. If you make an emulator, Nintendo might send hitmen after you…etc.
How is this allowed? Wasn’t Apple forced to allow alternative app stores in the EU?
Is there another alternative for mobile OSes?
Anyway, this is how I figured it would go… In the future just connecting to the internet with an „unlicenced“ device will be illegal.
For how much mobile app stores are walled gardens and PC software is the wild west is comparison, why does mobile software suck so much? Ads, terrible performance, terrible UX, and a flood of actual scams and zero standards for truth in advertising.
Meanwhile I can find ad-free open source software on PC that does exactly what I need most of the time, and despite not having to approve that software’s access to every tiny little feature of my PC, I haven’t had malware issues in over 25 years.
Mobile software is rotten. The walled garden only serves to enshrine monopolies and extract their cut from app purchases.