As an android ROM hacking and foss enthusiast, this meme is dumb as hell.

It’s not called side-loading because it’s not from the play store or whatever. it’s called side loading because the installation is not triggered from within the on-board software.

If you’re using Graphene OS and install software from F-Droid, that’s not sideloading. If you take the Play Store version of an APK and install it via ADB from your PC such that it functions just like it was installed from the store, full authorization included, that IS sideloading.

Don’t take the technical language we’ve been using for decades and reinterpret it to push some agenda in a meme.

Call the situation what it is: taking away product ownership rights.