Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Err, that’s not true on the last fee devices I’ve used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn’t require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It’s also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Insyall unknown apps.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On Samsung it’s: download APK, run it, see the warning, tap “allow third party installations”, flick a switch, tap “install”.

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• olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In some ROMs at least, unknown sources for specific apps is not in the developer options.

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  dark pattern

  This is not what dark pattern means.

  Also, I don’t think enabling developer options is required to install arbitrary APKs.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not a dark pattern…

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  that warning was not at all prominent, and as others have said, t does not exist anymore on modern android

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