The advanced flow is not for “installing apps”. It’s for sideloaded apps.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
“This is Android’s new ‘advanced flow’ for INSTALLING apps without verification”. Sideloading is such a bullshit term made only to confuse consumers. They can wrap that in sparkling wrapper, but it’s still security theater at best and definetly misleading. Apps from F-Droid or any other app ‘store’ are not any less safe than the ones at googles own offering.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 hours ago
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Do you consider installing games to you PC from Steam sideloading too? What about downloading Firefox installer? It is installing software on your computer, no matter if that computer happens to be in a cellphone form factor, and always has been. Sideloading is a made up term to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify even bigger walls on the ecosystem garden and control how people use their own devices.
undrwater@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Semantics, no? Side loading is an alternate way of installing.
Ulrich@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Yes, it is, thank you.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Without verification by Google. I am very much capable of verifying the origin and trustworthiness of the apps I install.