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Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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They're already developing the apps for the 1% of us not just using proprietary apps from the play store. I don't think this just kills open source app development.
That's not who we're talking about. We're talking about the 0.1% who have custom ROMs.
It won't kill it completely but it will severely hurt it. The more complicated it becomes, the smaller the userbase becomes.
Apps like Syncthing have already discontinued development due to Google shenanigans + lack of users. That'll only get worse as the userbase shrinks.