ProtonVPN now available on de-Googled Android devices via F-Droid

Proton has announced that its VPN service, ProtonVPN, is now available via F-Droid. Aside from the benefits F-Droid brings, ...
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Google is locking down Android sideloading, so I tested its escape hatch

Google forced me to wait 24 hours to enable one setting on my Android, then I tried sideloading apps three different ways ...

F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs

F-Droid’s Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up. Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a ...
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From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules

Even though there’s not a lot of love for them, Android’s new sideloading rules are perhaps not as controversial as they first seem. Still, Google’s changes to app installs from outside its Play Store ...

Here's how readers sideload APKs on their Android phones in 2026

According to a new reader poll, the majority of respondents still rely on the simplest method to install APKs outside the Play Store.