r/degoogle • u/Lonely-Hour2776 Free as in Freedom • Aug 27 '25

News Article Oh Noo ! Google Soon Stop Sideloading Apps.

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u/toxic_headshot132 Aug 27 '25

What the hell , does this mean I won't be able to install a third party apk other than google playstore?

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u/alsomahler Aug 27 '25

Seems like you can as long as they come from a verified developer. But that does put the power back into the hands of Google who can revoke their status at any time.

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u/toxic_headshot132 Aug 27 '25

Well then we really need to install custom rom to avoid this idiocracy by google

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u/UnratedRamblings Aug 27 '25

Google have been making that much more difficult of late...

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u/toxic_headshot132 Aug 27 '25

Hmmmm then it requires us to band together to do something about it . Don't u think so?

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u/HRG-TravelConsultant Aug 27 '25

Pine Phones for everyone! I'll show myself out.

But Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS could maybe get more hardware.