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Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.

If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.

The fact that this is in public mainstream discourse is a good thing.

The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.

Yeah, you’re right, I looked it up.

Apparently that’s the “Chinese characteristics” in “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.

I guess the alternative is locking their people out of Youtube by effectively banning it. Even this is a gutsy move TBH.

It’s the same deal when “how is it that you’re paying taxes if you’re a libertarian”?