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Federated solutions which can't be stopped, self hosted, and available via Fdroid.
Only real answer.
How about web apps or even regular sites with a mobile friendly UI?
Until Google revokes publishing privileges for side-loading applications. I think we'll have to go further and get used to making PWAs and regular websites.
You mean "installing normally." "Sideloading" is fucking anti-property-rights loaded language.
Good point. Wild how these ghouls have normalized their bullshit language.
Do you have a better, simple word for what they're banning?
What do you call installing an application on a computer?
I say "I
apt-getit"installing?
downloading and installing programs.
But they're not banning downloading and installing programs. What are they blocking, specifically?
Loading non-playstore apps?
"Ownership."
Allow vendors to completely control what apps run on your phone and banning websites and PWAs becomes trivial for them. Browsers are apps.
Google started using buzzwords of sideloading as to make a boogeyman security issue, to get people to side with them. its just installing, other than thier main store.
I can't believe Steve Jobs was right all along.
Steve Jobs just didn't have the right foresight. PWA's were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA's. Steve was a salesman first and foremost
He believed if he made quality products, that the stock price increases all the soulless capitalists demanded would follow. Which of course they did. Then Tim Apple took over, and quality went out the window in favor of stock buybacks. Kind of like Boeing.
Right? A well protected browser is about the best tool in this shi-nternet future.
Back before iOS had apps, webapp devs were clever AF. There was Beejive web for multi-IM and all sorts of clever stuff.
One can still put an icon for webapps on the home screen, and the OS even displays it as a full screen app. (Android has similar but not as elegant.)
They can only do that to phones running gapps
The issue with this is that like 95% of android devices run android with gapps and re-imaging your phone is becoming increasingly more difficult as manufacturers lock down their bootloaders. Normies who aren't technical are not gonna want to mess with that shit. I'm not saying this to instill hopelessness but highlighting that it's a challenge.
For censorship circumvention, mainstream tech is gonna continue to be increasingly useless. We need to educate people about these matters and also try to encourage people to lean heavily into decentralised comms like lora/meshtastic
All phones run gapps by default, other than those in Mainland China, that is.
Not just China, also common in south America. Huawei still has a large market share there and their phones don't have gapps since Trump banned American companies from doing business with Huawei