Google reveals multi-day process to install unverified apps on Android.
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Blabla... Security... blablabla... fight against malware and scammers... blaaaa... think of the children!!
Translation:
We're taking away yet another piece of freedom from you and claim it is for your own good. We don't care for your opinion, we don't care that you paid for hardware under the premise of getting an "open" OS running on your hardware (opposed to iOS)
Since there is some severe backlash this time, more than anticipated, we will still proceed as planned and offer some ridiculous pseudo-concession in the form of the "Advanced Flow".
As if the Play Store was an prime example of being free of malware. Google was quick with announcements and slow with the insane details. The mere existence of the announcement was enough to silence many critics. Mission accomplished.
Google demanding government ID, signing keys and money from people who never accepted their TOS qualifies -- in my opinion -- as highly criminal activity. "Nice app you developed there... wouldn't it be a shame if nobody could install it?" How come the people responsible for this aren't handcuffed yet?
What will change? Nothing. People will continue to support big tech. Nothing to see here, move on!
Translation:
We're taking away yet another piece of freedom from you and claim it is for your own good. We don't care for your opinion, we don't care that you paid for hardware under the premise of getting an "open" OS running on your hardware (opposed to iOS)
Since there is some severe backlash this time, more than anticipated, we will still proceed as planned and offer some ridiculous pseudo-concession in the form of the "Advanced Flow".
As if the Play Store was an prime example of being free of malware. Google was quick with announcements and slow with the insane details. The mere existence of the announcement was enough to silence many critics. Mission accomplished.
Google demanding government ID, signing keys and money from people who never accepted their TOS qualifies -- in my opinion -- as highly criminal activity. "Nice app you developed there... wouldn't it be a shame if nobody could install it?" How come the people responsible for this aren't handcuffed yet?
What will change? Nothing. People will continue to support big tech. Nothing to see here, move on!
Most of the steps required to still sideload apps seem rather reasonable in order to avoid complete morons to sideload malicious apps, but waiting 24 hours sounds more like an arbitrary roadblock to piss off people who know what they're doing.
For now one could argue that it's not gonna stop anyone who really wants to sideload apps. But as we all know, enshittification is a continuous process. Some day 24 hours won't be "secure enough" anymore.
For now one could argue that it's not gonna stop anyone who really wants to sideload apps. But as we all know, enshittification is a continuous process. Some day 24 hours won't be "secure enough" anymore.
Very annoying, but at least it's not really a "multi-day" process, that feels a bit like clickbait
Let's say the change would take 2 minutes to make, and now it's 24 hours + 2 minutes.
Even if strictly true because it's more than 24 hour, calling it "multi-day" is weird -- anyway, not trying to be difficult, I am not happy with the change either
Let's say the change would take 2 minutes to make, and now it's 24 hours + 2 minutes.
Even if strictly true because it's more than 24 hour, calling it "multi-day" is weird -- anyway, not trying to be difficult, I am not happy with the change either
What do you guys expect to happen to retro emulation handhelds? Will they continue to ship with Android?
Does it make sense at this moment to buy ones with Android? Because even if it remains possible to circumvent the restrictions, at some point some emulation app developers will feel like it is not worth it updating an emu app for an obscure retro system if only a handful of people will ever go through the trouble to run them on android. What do you think?
Does it make sense at this moment to buy ones with Android? Because even if it remains possible to circumvent the restrictions, at some point some emulation app developers will feel like it is not worth it updating an emu app for an obscure retro system if only a handful of people will ever go through the trouble to run them on android. What do you think?
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i think the handheld come with the unlock options already on
Right, because the alternatives to Android are SO compelling. Oh, and then there's the fact that 99.9% of the billions of people who use Android devices won't ever even hear about this situation nor ever care one bit about it since it doesn't affect them.
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