No definitely don't sideload a YouTube client that doesn't play ads!
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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I like the red one with a pipe
That's rich when the Google Play store is full of malware while F-Droid is full of gems.
This is the real truth. Man, the gall of that guy.
Hi, we are a spyware company. Be aware. Don't load apps that don't meet our surveillance metrics. Only download our spyware. Thank you.
Screw that guy. How about only sideload. There's another world out there, and it doesn't equate to surveillance capitalism.
Google's ADS as a whole are malicious. Try Google drivers or TeamViewer and the first sponsored links are malicious/adware. It's absolutely shocking.
I added ublock origin into my clients GPO to protect myself from viruses. Msoft just as bad if not worse since we are all using their products to be protected from.
F-Droid changed my life
It's awesome!
Honestly been steadily becoming less happy with the way Google/Android has been going even since Pichai took over.
In court: “Google isn’t a monopoly because we allow sideloading!”
Outside of court: “Don’t sideload. It’s dangerous and terrible!”
Sideloading is one of the greatest things we have.
I'm so glad we have it. It almost feels like power and control from a bygone age.
Of course this guy whose net worth is >$100m will be telling us not to use it.
Fuck him.
I would say " well now I will", but I already do this
Recently Android added another scary "malicious" warning to the already numerous scary dialogs if one tries to install F-Droid. The "Install anyways" button also became hidden in the "More details" menu.
It's not just F-Droid, it's any app.
This has been the final straw for me to fully de-google my life.
F you Google, Play, etc.
Currently setting up my next phone with no googlage.
Basically everything outside fdroid is riddled with trackers and ads so no, thanks
Funny how search engine giant Google doesn't implement a filter for "no ads, no in-app purchases."
People might actually be able to find what they're looking for instead of what google wants them to find.
aka "Please only ever buy things off the Google Play store"
If neither Google nor Apple took such a massive rake on the payments, fewer people would take issue with the main app distribution implementations. They have valid reasons for trying to keep you in their ecosystem, but those are severely undercut by taking such a huge percentage.
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stfu pichai
I do what I want. I'm eating Mac and cheese and nobody can stop me!
Hope it has bacon.
Dude, just today I made 10 lbs of spicy bacon mac and cheese. This shit is so lit it gives the sun a run for it's money.
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Ironically, I see articles every month telling android users to uninstall a slew of shit malware apps that were on the play store. Thanks Pichai, but I'll take my chances with more reputable sources.
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Yes, don't sideload apps. It takes opportunity from us to spy on your usage patterns and enforce ads.
Edit: Oooh, also ignore this other report that we take 70% of your money
That doesn’t say they take 70% of our money. It means that Google spends only 30% of what they take in on the store on operating it, which is very different.
That guy's got Liz-Truss-level understanding of economics
You know what I think I'm going to side load even harder
So they argue that they want to protect users... from epic games? Like they are going to make a virus filled app? I kinda agree people need to be protected from fortnite, but its kind if a silly disingenuous argument.
protected from fortnite
We got a number one Victory Royale
Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout to get down (get down)
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about.
I don't have the Play Store on my phone. F-Droid (Droidify), Aurora Store, Obtanium, and Accrescent.
AOSP is open source. Better STFU, Sundar.
I really can't wait until we have a Linux-Mobile OS which supports android apps rather than having an entire fucking operating system running on java.
Running your OS on java is like building your house on quicksand.
Java is only the languages some apps are programmed in. There is no JVM in android. And no, the OS does not run on Java.
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sundar shut the fuck up
That article is... very confusingly written. Anybody got another source with a direct, full quote?
Fuck up Pichai
So does the OS. It’s done that from the beginning, but it doesn’t prevent it outright. Who gives a shit?
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