Awww... Uncle Google just wants what's best for me! So what's the harm in getting into his van? What's the worst that could happen?
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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The problem is this is already being used to do political censorship so any restriction on what users can install on their device is harmful, because it's not just weird nerds but people need to use other apps like ice watch
He very technicaly speaking is correct. Pepole are dumb as bricks when it comes to technology.
Patrick Campanale, you're a spineless corporate shill and I hope one day, you will pay for that spinelessness
And now we know this "reporter", Patrick Campanale, is a bootlicker
Let's not jump to conclusions! He just might really be this stupid to believe these claims.
Let's punish both types in the same manner to make them both stop.
I like the energy but, ideally, stupidity/ignorance should be punished with education.
Can't cure stupidity, except if it's based on a lack of knowledge, right? Then again, the stupid-stupid person will just see education as a punishment 😁
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As someone who replaces "core" apps with FOSS alternatives, the 24 hour wait is quite a punishment.
We need those phone shops that actually can hack your phones back, just like when we use custom OS in nokia phones pre-smartphones, normalize custom ROM again.
I can get behind a delay to enable side loading and the warning screens are nothing to me since I can just click past them. Though the delay should be more like 30-60 minutes at the most.
The real problem is requiring devs (even outside of the play store) to identify themselves. That is ridiculous and does absolutely nothing to secure the device for the user. (It only secures it under Google for their interests)
I mean I get the idea of the forced restart and the general waiting time - assuming a scammer wants you to install a "side loaded" app, it will disconnect their call with you, of they're calling you on that phone. Same for a waiting period that forces the scammer to either hang around on the phone with you for a long time or to call again some time in the future.
But 24h?
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* than.
Fuck's sake.
Can't expect them to know what good grammar is while fellating Google's nuts!
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Everything on my grapheneOs is sideloaded,
Everything on my GrapheneOS is installed normally, by which I mean "however the fuck I want".
Fuck allowing the act of exercising your rights as the owner to be demonized with bullshit loaded language!
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I prefer package managers & installing software to locked corpo market bullshit loading
The opinions of a christian youth pastor who loves claude code.
What kind of apps are there that "typically" need to be installed "urgently"? Sure I can work around the delay most of the time (and be at worst annoyed out of my brain by it) but that's not how a user experience is meant to be designed, is it?
Anything I want right now that Google is blocking me from is urgent.
How long am I supposed to beg to use my own device?
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For a couple of years we directly loaded our app onto dedicated devices that we deployed to client locations. Adding an extra day to this process would require some extra work / planning.
This is for an app that isn't on the Play Store, and many of these devices don't have GMS, or a store or browser on them.
We've since moved entirely to an MDM, so this isn't really an issue anymore, but we do occasionally run into a device that's not yet been enrolled and still uses the manual installation
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Bruh screw android and its updates, it fucked up and it keeps getting worse, its updates are very occasional, at least if they were worthy then fine i'm with ya, but no, they are just junk, they slow down my phone and are many times buggy; it keep restricting users and developers under the term of 'security', go fuck ur security, I know what I'm doing, either gimme full control over my property or fuck off. This is MA phone NOT urs!
When I get a new phone, I'll either find a way to get an old android version like v10, or just find another system.
I'm not going to spend good money on another Android phone and because of this. I used to be willing to tolerate it to some extent but I'm done now. Any further Android devices are going to be low-end burner phones for a specific needs that I can't meet otherwise. Having a Linux phone is now a matter of necessity not something that would be nice to have
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Is 2026 going to be the year of the Linux handheld? /s
(No, Android is no more a Linux OS than the PlayStation is a BSD fork.)
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I'm throwing my phone into the sea the moment it tells me I'm not allowed to do something.
Hate to break it to you, but this is just the next assfucking in a long line of assfuckings. Your phone already won't let you:
- Unlock the bootloader without wiping all the data on your phone (or some won't let you unlock it at all)
- Run "sensitive" apps if you have the audacity to run code that isn't approved by the manufacturer
- Have admin or root rights to the phone you fucking bought and paid for without it marking your phone as "insecure"
I mean, maybe, hopefully, this will finally be the assfucking that wakes us the fuck up.
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The last one is probably true, though. Most Android users don't care about sideloading. Those who are being pressured to do so will face the 24 hour lock.
On the other hand, I'm an iPhone user who knows Android as well as anyone. So if I were to pick up, say a Pixel 11 Pro or a Galaxy S27 (so, looking at next year's lineup), the first thing I'm gonna do is hit that developer option to enable sideloading. I know where it is. I know how to unlock it. And I know the risks. In the meantime I'm gonna set up Nova Prime, I'm gonna put Poweramp on it, I'm gonna be setting up KLCK and KLWP (and maybe KWGT) and all the other apps. By the time I need to sideload anything, I'll have the important stuff out of the way and shouldn't have to wait that long.
In the meantime I’m gonna set up Nova Prime
https://www.androidauthority.com/nova-launcher-acquisition-ads-update-3633871/
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Link to the article (for the comments, the article itself is pretty much AI)
https://www.howtogeek.com/android-24-hour-sideloading-delay-shouldve-happened-years-ago/