Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom

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Just who owns the phone anyway? I hope Google doesn’t get into automobile security. We’d have to buy Google gas, listen only to Google radio (comes with loads of free advertising), And nothing will fit except Google parts.

It’s not getting better and Google’s attempt at owning the Internet is getting closer. reminds me of Colossus The Forbin Project.

I wonder, does Googles latest restriction include all Android devices around the world, or just the US?

I’m made a slight change to suite today’s times being what they are … Remove one freedom every week, and soon there will be no freedoms, and no one will notice

Originally said ‘each generation’.

I hope the ad doesn’t scare a lot of Android users into getting in to what I got into.

I imagine Google will block people that lease their phone from Google from using the “Dark”, or “Deep” web. It’s one place that I see being blocked by ISO (Internet Service Provider verses IP (Internet Protocol) for users safety and privacy - of course.

Only one word for what Google is doing.

~s

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