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Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism (puri.sm)
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[+] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm sorry, but in that case, it wasn't worth running the app to begin with. You can either find a third-party app that lets you access the same content, such as Newpipe and YouTube, or you can use it from a web browser, such as your bank, and if you can't do either of those, then just don't fucking use that service.

    I was willing to totally switch banks because my previous bank required me to use a mobile app and I did not want to do so. If I must go through some annoyance to use something that works properly, I will.

    For me at least, running as much open source as I can possibly do is worth more than the inconvenience caused by not being able to use these shit services.

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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    cool, any dev who requires that is acting in bad faith against my privacy and doesn't deserve my support.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The problem comes when it's not an app you're using for the app's sake, but because it's the app of some company you have a real-world relationship with. Your bank's app being the most important one that comes to my mind, considering I've already heard about some banks trying to restrict users to only Google's flavour of Android before this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Honestly other than a fingerprint lock, I've found the apps suck compared to just a browser on a PC anyhow. Half the apps could just be webpages, and a bunch of those are just wrappers to a web rendering layer anyhow

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    and that's important why? pick a different bank, or don't use the app at all.

    I get that some folks think using the app is a requirement. that may be true for some but not all.

    don't support shitty services and these companies won't continue to abuse us.

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