NewPipe and other open-source Android apps are warning users about Google's upcoming sideloading restrictions and offering workarounds.
  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Yeah I am pretty pissed off that this article is conflating issues by even suggesting this.

    The legal grey area they are alluding to is ad blocking. I don’t think it’s grey but that has to be what they are saying.

    But the article is about third party apps and Google being a fuckwit.

    This waters down the discussion, and is a unnecessary diversion.

    • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
      3·
      37 minutes ago

      Ad blocking isn’t even a legal grey area, it’s legal (as it should be, ads are a major attack vector for malware and scams).

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        31 minutes ago

        I agree with you, yet I am sure there are lawyers who will argue that it would be against their terms of service.

        I am with the old school crowd: you put stuff on the internet however you like, and I will render it however I like.