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Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

In today’s society everything needs to be baby proofed. Protect this protect that. People need to take responsibility for their actions.

Your grandpa got greedy and wanted to invest money to make more money. Now he got scammed and he learned his lesson. Next time guided by prior experience he should/will be more careful. If not he will loose more money until he realises he shouldn’t be clicking and installing everything he sees.

And that applies to everyone. You alone are responsible for your actions, not anybody else

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helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Until he has early dementia and forgets the lessons learned, but of course he’ll forget he invested anything tomorrow and do it again!

I’m all for holding people personally responsible, but sometimes we gotta help each other out. Also blaming the victim for being scammed is not helpful. Scammers do so many underhand tactics its impossible for any of the keep track alone.

I’m okay with more tools to help us protect people. Maybe instead of needing ADB, you have to boot into save mode, and can enable 3rd party sources from there? This way you can still enable it on the phone while preventing a script or app can’t automate enabling it. Oh and because there’s more scan shit on google play than Fdroid, we’ll need google play to be enabled the same method too.

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- dumbadoor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Í get what you are saying, I also have an elderly mother that is bad with technology. But she ask anything that is outside of her usual usage.
  
  If she starts doing some stupid stuff and she isn’t aware of her problem then I’m responsible for her actions. Because its not only her problem then but all of ours family. And again usually I’m the one that is stuck with the problem.
  
  Then when dialogue doesn’t help I’m locking the device and make sure she doesn’t do something stupid like that again.
  
  I need the company to provide the necessary tools to prevent fraund so that I can use it.
  
  Not that the company polices what I can or can’t do with my device that I paid
  
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