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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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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.