The website “Keep Android Open” is an initiative to protest and advocate against a new policy by Google which bans sideloading apps. The goal is to pressure Google to reverse or modify this policy to protect the open nature of the Android platform and the ability to sideload or use 3rd party app stores without excessive restrictions https://keepandroidopen.org
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There’re also concerns that #LineageOS and other open source phone operating systems cannot support all hardware devices.
For me, 99% of all devices aren’t eligible at all for human rights reasons. For me, human rights come before performance, features and so forth.
The only manufacturers being considered for me are @Fairphone and @shiftphones. Maybe there’re a few others.
(I’m not involved in those companies at all, I’m just a user.)
@nixCraft The dependency on big tech is one of the reasons for me not to use banking apps at all. I use a separate TAN generator to create security tokens for me. For this to work I also needed to order a girocard from my bank; it costs about 12 bugs per year.
Since the Visa debit card which the bank pushes forward doesn’t work with the TAN generator.
Girocard is a German specific, I know. Unfortunately I’ve no idea about the availability of similar services in other countries.
@nixCraft we should stop using the term sideloading, the correct term is installing. It serves googles purposes to use that term and make it sound like you're doing something weird. We don't use that expression when installing software in other contexts.
@nixCraft This is a good idea BUT
Alternatives exist like #lineageos #grapheneos and a bunch of others that will allow you to actually own your device and it's data, that will allow you to sideload apps until your heart is content, that will empower you to screw Google.
If you continue to not be able to sideload because of #Google, use that as motivation to explore these #opensource alternatives. #SetYourselfFree
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