Seems the pressure is working.
How generous of them that we’re allowed to install software on our mobile computers that we own.
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In this day and age, I’d be not at all surprised if you had to pay a monthly “developer fee” or similar to get access to sideloading.
I was just talking to a friend of mine last night over beers about how he’d pay to not have all these companies foist AI on him, and my response then was what it is now. Don’t give them any ideas.
Oh no, I’m going to try and attract Murphy, hoping that his law still holds.
Oh I suuuuure wish we would have to pay a subscription for sideloading! I suuuure would hate if we got the feature for free permanently! Man, I soooo want to pay a subscription for this basic feature soooooo baaaaad!
What counts as “experienced”? Because I’m capable of installing a custom ROM
On another article I read, according to Google:
Anyone who’s not gullible enough to turn off multiple protections, by following directions of someone scamming you.
I turn off multiple protections because they dont protect me, they are not protwctions they are artificial technical barriers to the freedom of the user
Installing a custom ROM is rookie numbers. Removing a faulty wallpaper through TWRP (sRGB palette was not supported on Android 9 or something), THIS is the real skill xD
ZOOM!! Watch out for low-flying obtuseness…
Thanks for the warning lol
I have family members who can’t change their phone wallpaper through the GUI. Your standards are far too high!
Not far too high. I tested the Android bug, SystemUI began crashing like crazy, but thankfully I already read what to do. Normal users would just avoid this situation.
You’re not wrong and you even kind of support my point. The barrier must be pretty low, equal to the difficulty of installing a ROM
We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands.
That sounds great actually! Lets see how they actually implement it though. After how they communicated this previously, I’m hesitant to get my hopes up.
Honestly if they add a test you have to pass to install anything even from the Play Store and this test blocks my mum, I’m all here for it. 😑 Some people ought to just not be allowed to install apps.
so long as ‘wedding album’ apk shared on whatsapp don’t get installed, i’m content.
so we gotta pass exams to sideload now? /jk
I’ve been using Android since gingerbread, does that make me an “experienced user”?
Why google is doing this? I just want to download apps from F-Driod. I just want to install software on a device that I own!
Because they are mad about Epic winning the right to operate they’re own play store on Google. They want ALL not most of the money
A one hour cooldown period, a scammer would not want to be on the phone with you for over an hour to try to wait for the timer to run out, and any experienced user will enable it when they very first get their phone, so won’t have to ever deal with it again. LOL.
That’s not true. The YouTube scam baiters are on the phone with the same scammers for many hours
Fuck it, make it 24 hours.
