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It sure can. I’m installing most of my stuff from F-Droid nowadays and I’m sure as hell confused why would anybody call this “sideloading”.

• sho_hn 1y ago
  Maybe I'm just exhausted by the many times HN has told me I'm tilting at windmills refusing to call the Llamas of the world "open source".
• throawayonthe 1y ago
  perhaps because that's installing from a store, not sideloading? however poor (security-wise) the offering may be, you're still using the intended install flow in this sense i do actually agree about the misuse of 'sideloading' - the planned change would not impact just sideloading, but also 'third party' stores
  • barnabee 1y ago
    If anything, the store download is the case where it’s not installing. There’s nothing “installed” about something which can be yanked from your device or prevented from working at someone else’s whim.
• tracker1 1y ago
  Well, you side-loaded F-Droid in the first place.