No, no, and still no. Installing an app on an Android device you've purchased and fully own is not "sideloading".

[luboganev@androiddev.social]

@zsmb13 if they continue, I will open a PR in their repo to rename adb install to adb sideload. They should rename all of it - command, docs, etc. I'm so sick of that term. It's exactly as scary and intentional as the urgency scammers use while scamming.

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[luboganev@androiddev.social]

@zsmb13 and the website is very often reached through a scammer using scam ads served by Google Ads. Lmao.

[tom@subdued.social]

@zsmb13 If you can't install & run your choice of software on it, it's not your device.

[leonerd@fosstodon.org]

@zsmb13 I usually sideload bread into my toaster. I buy bread from a different company than that which made my toaster.

(Well, I load the bread in from the top like a normal toaster. )

[sagefault@infosec.exchange]

@zsmb13 This is not the first time I've heard this, but to me, sideload was always just the obvious extension of upload and download.

When did it become a negative term rather than just a useful name for a slightly different process?

[themnwolf@furry.engineer]

@zsmb13 Apple set the precedent, and the precedent they set was "hahahano".

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@zsmb13

You own the device, but Google owns Android.

[patricus@gts.posix.live]

@zsmb13 yeah, assholes call freedom something optional

[patricus@gts.posix.live]

@zsmb13 why not call buying a phone renting it from scumbags, at that point?

[tiredbun@akko.wtf]

@zsmb13

And a lot of usecases people say, about this thing protecting from literal spyware/stalkerware, are assuming that it is not google-certified already, and that it cannot get certified either because ones who made it are affiliated with governments google must abide law of, or with by paying google under a different identity every once in a while and hiding app functionality better.