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It's a sign of the times that we now need a different word for what used to be normal: installing software on hardware you own.

What's more disturbing is the fact that a lot of people are completely fine with something like this:

and even got uninstalled from the sticks, where it was installed previously through the store.

In the physical world, it would be like giving to the companies of everything you bought, permission to enter your house and remove or modify its products at any time. It's perfectly reasonable to stop offering a product or broadcast recall notices, but IMHO going beyond that is overstepping a boundary.

Sideloading is supported. There's even an app called Downloader (http://www.aftvnews.com/downloader/) that lets you sideload from the web.

There are easy ways to sideload.