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Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

From what angle is it easy to do?

Enable developer mode (using a hidden process where you have to know where to find it)
Go through a scary form
Restart the device
Wait 24 hours?!
Go to the settings again
Do some more scary confirmations
Check another scary checkbox
And then… confirm again every single time you install an app

And you are telling me it’s easy to do? I can go publish a diet tracking app and Aunt Flo will happily go through this and I won’t lose customers?

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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I feel like if someone knows what an .apk is and where to download them, they’ll also know how to search for how to install them

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- dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah, and currently you don’t need to know what an apk is to get install them.
  
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  - MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Then you’re just installing from the play store are you not? If you want to use f-droid or something else you initially have to start with getting their .apk do you not? Or am I mistaken and misremembering?
    
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