Google has announced it is building a new way for ‘experienced users’ to install Android apps that haven’t been verified.

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  • rearview@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Building a new way does not adequately means giving up on developer verification. In the last paragraph, Google is also promoting the verification for non-GPlay developers.

    Out of all possibilities in this universe, there may be a chance that these new flows include user verification instead of developer.

    There should also be a rule to rephrase “sideloading” as “installing from non-Google-approved sources” at this point.

    • Xylight‮@lemdro.idOP
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      7 months ago

      As much as sideloading is a strange term, it is one that most people understand. If someone were to search for information about this specific topic, they would search for “sideloading”, not whatever alternative we come up with, regardless of how “accurate” it is