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Google sideloading and F-droid prospects
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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The way I'm understanding it is, some F-Droid apps will still work, but their developer would have to be "verified", whatever that entails. I'm not sure what will happen if one tried to installed an app with an unverified developer, but it probably won't be anything good.
Whatever the case, this won't affect most of us (sorry Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand) until 2027. I have a phone running LineageOS and will continue to use it until it gives out, but my next phone will definitely not be running android, because I am so done with this crap.
@onlooker @Korkki indeed ... By 2027 I will have my phone (and old spare phone) on an alternative OS.
In the early days of MS-DOS I had a lock-in and won't have that again if I can avoid it.
(And all the other reasons to leave Google and the other big tech)
what makes these countries different?
Google seems to think that unauthorized apps on android devices are most prevalent in the four countries mentioned.
"unauthorized" my ass, though.
Tell me about it.
if the phone is yours, you are the only one who should "authorize" apps to be installed or not.
its their way of baking in their control in the words we use to describe it. sideloading means installing apps from outside google's ecosystem, but has a negative "sidechannel for unofficially hacking apps in" connotation to it.