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AJL wrote:

I'm now posting with my Windows Thunderbird app.
Guess what. All the 'sideloading' words above and in this sentence are underlined in red. Another newsreader app's dictionary agrees with you.

Hi AJL,

I hope by now you, and most people here, realize I don't just parrot
propaganda like many clueless people do, as I think about the meaning.

Even the Cambridge dictionary uses sideloading the way we use the word
thief. The word is *designed* to conjure up images akin to the dark web.

Since every platform not iOS has the capability of "normal loading", even
as Google is deprecating it daily, as we speak, that's what it really is.

To me.

And, rest assured, I do a *lot* of "normal loading", since all my Google
Play Store apps are scraped off the Google Play repository by Aurora.

I'll openly and readily and publicly admit that "side loading" (or
sideloading) is accepted by most people, but my point is that it's a
deprecatory word for normal loading.

Damn. Quit using big words. Deprecatory?? I had to look that up:
Expressing disapproval; disapproving, apologetic or appeasing:
"a deprecatory smile". Kinda like my smile right now. Anyway I don't see 'sideloading' as having any emotion at all.

I'd like to meet you when I visit friends in Phoenix as you have a sense of humor. The way Google uses 'sideloading' is the way a pastor uses 'hooker'.

Out here, we just call them 'sex workers', which is a more-normalized word.

However, it is in the Cambridge dictionary, so they think it's a
word. <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sideload>
"to put software on a computer or mobile phone without using the
official way of buying the software"

That's close. I doubt that Amazon intended for me to put the Google Play Store and other outside APKs on its Fire OS tablet but still allowed my outside apps to be unofficially sideloaded and used.

Well, as I understand the word, sideloading in tech speak, AFAIK, is for putting an app on the device without using the official OEM methods.

It's kind of like putting an app on an iPhone without using the app store. Perhaps, more to the point, it's like normal Windows without the MS Store.

Notice something odd though, that they specifically focus on
"buying". That's weird. It's wrong, right? They simply don't know
what it means.

Or maybe the word is used in different ways. This seems to suggest
cheating by loading an app from the side to avoid payment?

Right. The Cambridge dictionary is so wrong that I seriously wonder how it
made it into their books, given they could have asked someone who knew.

It's probably hard to run a for-pay app anyway, without paying for it.

There are some apps that are available both ways, but otherwise, I have no
idea how anyone could run a for-pay app without actually paying for it.

Do you?
Does anyone?

If not, then it's likely the Cambridge dictionary is wrong on a lot.

Any other dictionary citations we should add to this thread for
reference?

Nah. It's worn out. And anyway I've solved the problem with this
Thunderbird newsreader. I just right click a red underlined word and
in the popup tick "Add to Dictionary". Now, no more 'sideload' red underlines. Problem solved... ;)

Yes, but how are we going to get Apple to stop using the derogatory term?
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