Never used it. I just apply on a given company’s website, after finding out about the job on various job boards. I’m not even sure where LinkedIn is supposed to come into play?

I hope this is the same video that was doing the rounds on Reddit ~15 years ago, and not that it has ever happened again… Edgy redditors would use it as a “rickroll”.

I like your ideas, they would be a better replacement than just “installing”.

It is, but sadly I don’t think Android Authority and other publications will be convinced. We should still try though.

I said in my first comment it would have to be “installing from outside the Play store”, otherwise it wouldn’t have clear meaning.

Yeah exactly, and we reached all the way back to my original comment: you can’t just replace “sideloading” with “installing”, without adding additional clarification.

I’d just call all of that “installing”, “sideloading” doesn’t really make sense here. Importantly you already specified how you installed in each case, so it’s perfectly understandable whatever verb you use.

Correct, but what do you propose? In your terminology installing from the Play Store is “sideloading” and installing directly is “installing”. But surely you agree that if an article was titled “Google makes installing apps on Android harder, but sideloading will be as smooth as before”, everyone would understand the opposite of that.

Yes that’s what I’m saying, it’s “installing” regardless of where you get the app, so if an article wants to talk about something concerning installing apps from outside the Play Store, they can’t just say “installing”. That would be incorrect if the things they talk about don’t concern installing from the Play Store.

So you need a different description than just “installing”.

E.g. in this example the article title couldn’t be “installing changes are next”, it would need to be something else.

“Installing” is not a drop-in replacement for “sideloading” without changing the meaning of what you say.

Yeah, but installing from the Play Store is also installing, and “sideloading” is shorter than “installing from outside the Play store”, so I’m not sure this is a winnable fight.

I’m more shocked he said “excuse me, I’m so sorry” afterwards. Are we sure that’s the real Trump?

Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined “receive data from internet” among the other scary permissions.

That’s the one thing a news app presumably should be doing

Which is?

Believe it or not, you can do two things at once. Some people are interested in space, some in geology. That’s fine.

Yeah, and currently you don’t need to know what an apk is to install them.

From what angle is it easy to do?

• Enable developer mode (using a hidden process where you have to know where to find it)
• Go through a scary form
• Restart the device
• Wait 24 hours?!
• Go to the settings again
• Do some more scary confirmations
• Check another scary checkbox
• And then… confirm again every single time you install an app

And you are telling me it’s easy to do? I can go publish a diet tracking app and Aunt Flo will happily go through this and I won’t lose customers?

I feel like anything you want to get that’s not on the Play Store, you’re gonna be savvy enough to install.

Yes, that’s my point. Google making it so that you have to be a tech savvy user to install anything from outside the Play Store is why there is nothing outside the Play Store that a non-tech savvy user would be interested in, because why would there be if no one is going to install it anyway. Fortnite was a big example where you had to download the APK from their website, and they sued Google that it was too hard for users. And it was before these changes which make it incredibly harder.

They also know it’s you when you don’t use it. I’m not sure how is it worse? Seems like a handy way to go around geoblocks.

No, you do this and then you can’t install anything, because no developer will choose this process as their publishing strategy.

Apps outside the Play Store will be dead, which is the point.

That’s already the case. The new thing is that they want developers to share their ID to have their apps be installable on Android in the first place, even if they don’t use the Play Store.