Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Google: "Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.
And we will NEVER trust you again, fuck you google.
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait, so Google listened to our feedback, and we’re still mad? What would a positive outcome have looked like?
greenacres3233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I genuinely believe that it was motivated by the desire to deter scammers. What leads you to believe it’s not? There are many gullible people out there who will follow, precisely as you pointed out, phishing links that encourage them to sideload an unverified app.
No system is perfect, and I also believe that Google Play does a fair job of removing malicious apps.
I’m sorry to try to bring some nuance into this thread as I know that discourse isn’t welcome on Lemmy, but I’m just trying to wrap my head around the outrage. Providing a way to let experienced users continue to sideload apps while safeguarding the more gullible seems like a good idea and I still genuinely don’t understand what your preferred solution would be.
greenacres3233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
theparadox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would understand the outrage if Google didn’t stick to their word, but unless I’ve missed something, they’ve not, have they? Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision? Wasn’t this what we wanted?
theparadox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.
In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Once user trust is burned it’s not coming back.
There are no positive outcomes available now - it’s time to abandon Google.
Linux phones arriving sooner? Hopefully that’s the silver lining.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If you think that Google listened and did the right thing out of the goodness of their heart, then I have a bridge to sell you
Google cancelled because of the backlash but they WILL be back for more, they always do
Trust has been broken and that won’t come back. Software companies, in the end, are all the same, they all enahittify over time and always will talk pretty to lull you into a sense of security. I’m not buying it
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
because they haven’t? We don’t want any changes to our ability to install software. This would still kill f-droid, and the “flow” they talked about isn’t a system wide setting. You have to do it per app. And you, the owner of the divice who just wants to install something on your device, would have to register. So if too many people install the app, the dev would be forced to register as well.
How is any of that “listening to user feedback”?