Yea no, just don't change things. Things are good as they are without them trying to encroach further on our ownership of our devices.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
(www.androidauthority.com)
are they actually being rid of the "give us your id and pay to be certified to install" nonsense
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Good news! But it doesn't change the fact that Google tried to do this in the first place.
Two steps forward, one step back
...is the easiest way to get a controversial change through.
Decide what you want to do, suggest something way more absurd, the go "oh we listened and we are only going to do [the original thing we wanted to in the first place]"
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OP is either deluded or in bad faith.
This WILL go through, just slightly later to try to make less noise.
Linux phones are the only choice left.
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Eh, I'm probably gonna ditch that smartphone thing anyways, at least for a while. Android becoming a closed-off garden was the last straw and I was kinda looking forward trying to go without a phone to test if I can adapt. I started leaving the house without my phone more and more and I kinda like it.
Sure, it's fun and convenient to have the Internet in my pocket. Heck, it's even required in some cases, but this digital mess we are currently in is too much for me. I remember how I was looking forward having one back then; I was really looking forward having acces to the Interney wherever I was, but nowadays I kinda miss being less conected from all the bullshit especially when outside.
I guess I could get a linuxphone one day if I miss having a phone (if I somehow manage to completely remove the smartphone from my life in the first place).
If this flow existed once for disabling the entire feature permanently, I would be okay with it. But it seems like they are going to intentionally make installing any software they don’t get a piece of painful to install every time. That is not an acceptable compromise.
How about they drop the entire thing and keep it as it was and is?
Thank god. I would've ditched Android for good if this went through, and while it sounds like it would be annoying for casual users to enable unverified apps, at least we can still install them.
You would have ditched Android for ios if it were implemented?
Not hardly. I've been looking for a reason to support Linux phones, and that would just have been the thing to do it.
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