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Google ending sideloading

puppykickr

puppykickr

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So Google is going to make it difficult to sideload anything onto your android soon.

I am wondering if my solution will work....

I use Shizuku and Canta to 'uninstall for user' all the Google crap and any bloatware on my devices.

From what I have read, if the device has Google Play Services on it then sideloading requires a computer and effort.

When I 'uninstall for user', this is an ADB command that makes the apps chosen stay dormant- even after a reboot, and they no longer show up in a launcher.

However, they do show up when you check Apps through Settings.
They do not run, and they all say 'uninstalled for user'.

Basically that means that if I had another profile on the device then those apps would run normally, but only on the other profile- not the one I used Canta on.

My question here is if anyone thinks this 'trick' will work, or will I once again be sitting on Google tacks when I use my phone?

THE SWIMMING POOL ON THE TITANIC IS STILL FULL
 
i would love anyone that has the free time to try Shizuku and Canta (need both) together to degoogle a device and converse about results and discuss if this will work with future devices
 
It's far worse than just blocking side-loading. This is a pure, unadulterated police surveillance state for sale to whoever will pay the price... and it's an OS-level block.

 
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i dont allow updates to my devices for this very exact type of thing

Everyone is always, "Gee, man. You sure bitch and moan about Google a lot for someone who uses their devices."

Yes.
Yes I do.

I f you buy a hamburger at McDonald's, it is how you want it or else you dont except it.
Somehow if it's Google I am just supposed to toll over and hope that they use lube this time and I better not bitch about it.

This is why I want them off the device before it ever connects to the web at all.

As far as I am concerned, if Google doesnt like that then it is their prerogative not to sell the device to me in the first place.

It's just not my problem, and nobody is going to convince me otherwise.

I am actually anxious to see what if anything happens to my device.
This is going to be a great test to see if what I have done to this thing really works or not.

I just wish that I had a better device to start with, this one was the last dud in the line its from.

Watch everyone scramble for old devices and batteries for them after this $#!+storm hits.

Then again, the ones that say I bitch too much will be rolling over and lubing up (if they want)

And I will still be out there bitching about it, no matter what happens.
It is what it is, right?

THE SWIMMING POOL ON THE TITANIC IS STILL FULL
 
I've already gotten a warning on the Bubble app that it will stop working. I dislike google and have avoided using their specific app/programs (e.g. google search). I'm wondering what people will do now? I have to replace my cell phone as it has problems and I'm for the first time considering switching to Iphone. The android open system advantage is gone.
 
startac4 said:
I've already gotten a warning on the Bubble app that it will stop working. I dislike google and have avoided using their specific app/programs (e.g. google search). I'm wondering what people will do now? I have to replace my cell phone as it has problems and I'm for the first time considering switching to Iphone. The android open system advantage is gone.
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i still despise iphone UI.
i admit that i frustrate rather quickly, but honestly i handed the device back to the owner in 30 seconds the first time i held one.

completely unintuitive for me, and i am now old enough to not want to waste time learning new tech because new tech is outdated junk in 8 months anyway.

i think if enough people get off the Google bottle feeder it would be a good thing altogether for society in general.

but i dont think enough people would want to live without all the trinkets dangled in front of them in return for loss of their freedoms

freedom has becone so ubiquitous as to not be noticed as it is slowly chiseled away

not until a final crushing moment, when it is already too late.

this is why i cant make a search vocally, unlock my device with the fingerprint scanner, use the stock utillity apps, control my freezer from 1000 miles away, etc..

all of this makes my device plain, obsolete, and boring to the masses.

if this lockdown is actually via the app Google Play Services, as has been stated by various sources, then i hope that a deactivation of that app and a lack of a Google account on the device may help avoid the problem

my guess is that the after effects of the lockdown would be a drastic reduction in the availability of things like F-droid and the apps they provide, and /or these things only being available to those thatcan afford to pay for such things.

and then the underground market for hacked phones and apps would expand as well
 
yes same here, I will hate apple Ui until the end of time,
why because it is fixed, and unmovable, only eldery grandpas will purchase that without a care in the world for us,
android users, FFS, even my sister has better intel and she only know smaller stuff on moving apps around and she does not know what the
UI feels like over all... And she is technology sneezes when someone mentions IG. Yeah she thinks it is 'safe to wait to go home to post up photos
on going on vacation' yeah like that will save her...SMH,it is better to secure it on a safe wifi like my mother's car to upload anything.
And still anti-Verizon cloud.


Why would a service like that take away your option of not labeling those annoying flashbacks like it used to do,
and takes ages to download your local photos and videos directly on the same machine, seriously it is not like "hey I am in outerspace."
No guess what it is the same machine and the cloud does not allow you to select all and download them at once!!!!
 
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