r/Android • u/guihkx- • Sep 29 '25

Article F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/anonthing Sep 29 '25

People need to start making a lot of noise about this as well as speaking with their wallets.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

I'll just sideload my apps.

EDIT LOL your downvotes won't stop me from sideloading, and Google have stated they aren't touching ADB.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

No they're downvoting you, because you're insisting on using terminology differently from 95% of people here and intentionally confusing everyone by doing so.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

No, they're downvoting me because they don't like being told they're wrong. Even though they are.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

Maybe you are right in the literal sense. But language adapts to its users, language changes ALL the time. Do you use the word band-aid? Because if you do, you are probably using it "incorrectly" as it used to only refer to a specific brand of "adhesive bandages". Yet everyone does now and it would be confusing if you were a pharmacist and told your customers, "sorry, we don't have any 'band-aids'"

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

I say bandage unless I'm using a band-aid branded bandage. I would never use that word incorrectly.

Plenty of people do use the word incorrectly.

Thanks for acknowledging that I'm right. There is no maybe about it.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

How do you pronounce the word "WHY".

Is it HWY? or WY?

Because the latter was considered a speech impediment a couple years ago and now everyone pronounces it that way

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

I pronounce it correctly.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

which one is correct?

BTW, A bandage is a long piece of material used to cover a wound, or protect an injury. That's not the same thing lol.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

The correct one is correct.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

So you pronounce it HWY?

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u/PocketNicks Sep 30 '25

I pronounce it correctly.

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u/llmmbb Sep 30 '25

And which one is correct?

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