Starting in 2026, sideloaded apps will have to come from “verified” developers.

  • cazzmaniandevil@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Stop calling this sideloading, it’s just installing software on a computer. The term makes it an easy ‘other’ to be distrusted. And this concerns all apps not just apps coming from a different app store. Google wants to control all the apps you’re allowed to install by them

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      15 hours ago

      Sideloading is a perfectly good word for a legitimate act.
      It’s not “just installing software on a computer”. It’s installing software on a tethered device.
      Don’t let them twist the word’s meaning in order to demonize people.