The advanced flow is not for “installing apps”. It’s for sideloaded apps.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
undrwater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Semantics, no? Side loading is an alternate way of installing.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yes, it is, thank you.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Do you consider installing games to you PC
This is not a PC though. Whether you or I like it or not, they are different. And no one wants to type out “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store” every time. It’s a useful term.
Sideloading is a made up term
All terms are made up.
to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify
[Citation needed]
People keep saying this but it makes absolutely no sense. The term predates both Apple and Google, and nothing about the term itself suggests it is “dangerous”.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”
To me that implies it’s somehow different than just installing software. You could say ‘install from play store’ or ‘install from f-droid’ if you need to specify which app repository you should use, as that what it is. Sideloading might be an appropriate term if you need to upload apk to your device via USB-cable from your PC, which the term originally meant.
to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify
[Citation needed]
From the article:
This “advanced flow” is for power users and enthusiasts who “want to take educated risks to install software from unverified developers.” Google says it was “designed carefully to prevent those in the midst of a scam attempt from being coerced by high pressure tactics to install malicious software.”
Sure, the term itself comes from 1990s, but lately specially Google tries to twist that to mean something only ‘power users’ do and it comes with a ‘educated risk’.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Without verification by Google. I am very much capable of verifying the origin and trustworthiness of the apps I install.