• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    16 hours ago

    Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side?

    I don’t know what you think “loading from the side” means? I use the term for the same reason I use any other term: to convey ideas through common understandings.

    It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.

    Why the fuck would Google care what words you use?

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      16 hours ago

      It means downloading not from the internet but from another device.

      Google wants it to mean installing software they don’t condone, but I don’t see why the rest of it should follow their lead. I don’t know anyone who calls installing from FDroid “sideloading”

      The words people use influences public opinion and the bottom line of corporations such as Ford and Google.

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        16 hours ago

        It means downloading not from the internet but from another device.

        It doesn’t.