Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because they want to stop people from using ad blockers.

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• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Option 1 is a potential cause of "lost" revenue.

  Late stage capitalism absolutely forbids anything that could cause that, even if the cost of implementation outweighs any potential gain.

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• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because it’s Google

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    bing! thy turkey's done

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Taking Google at their word for a moment, it’s far too easy to scam the clueless masses into selecting the first one.

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Taking Google at their word for a moment

    And why should we do that?

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m inclined to think that’s not the job of an OS vendor to prevent. Sure, put a warning label on it, but it’s the user’s device; once they say they know what they’re doing, that should be that.

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    • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The implication here is, if they implement this, is that they volunteer to assume liability, should e.g., your bank account be drained despite undergoing their forced strict lockdown on paid and owned devices.

      Fat chance, because laws are meaningless to crime syndicates

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      • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It might be a reasonable trade for users to make if Google assumed liability. In fact, that would be an interesting way to implement laws to discourage practices like these.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If someone can be socially engineered into disabling security mechanisms, then that should just be their fate. There’s no sense in fucking everyone else in order to protect them.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    but they could make it be google play or samsung store only as the default as a compromise

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• littleguy@lemmy.cif.su ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That would give users choice, and corporations want as many people as possible to be incapable of making decisions for themselves.

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• stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can see it already:

  () Just Google Play (safe)

  () Verified apps (not recommended)

  Advanced settings

  click on Advanced settings

  () All sources (Unsafe. Will probably kill your cat and burn down your house)

  tick the box

  Are you sure?

  click yes

  ARE YOU SURE?

  click yes again

  ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE?

  wait for the 30 seconds timer to count down

  click yes

  ( ) I do not love my cat and want him to die.

  tick the box

  ( ) I accept the very real risk of my house burning down

  tick the box

  Please wait 24 hours for the change to apply. You can reverse it at any time from this menu.

  get spammed every hour for the next 24 hours with notifications asking me to fix my security settings

  get a bigass ⚠️ every time I turn on the phone

  every once in a while the change just straight up reverses and I have to do it all over again

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