Comment on Android's new real-time app scanning aims to combat malicious sideloaded apps | TechCrunch

tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep.

  I’ve already seen it try to disable sideloaded apps. Was yet one more motivator to go to a de-googled device (specifically DivestOS). I can’t do Graphene with my current device, but my next phone will be a Pixel 5.

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  • smotherlove@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just curious, why a 5?

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    • 520@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Pixel 8 just launched. If you want a cheaper phone go for the 7s

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      • PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Google offered $150 for my nearly new 7, I’m sure there will be quite a few on the used market.

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    • ultra@feddit.ro ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably because of ROM support

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      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That and the form factor, feature set, weight, brightness l, fingerprint sensor, weight, materials.

        I’d prefer a 4 since it’s plastic, but the 5 is almost exactly same size and weight.

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  • jacktherippah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why a Pixel 5? It’s end of life already.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Currently using an Essential Ph1. Paid $100 for it. Runs fast. Faster than my friends newer phones.

      I see no reason to pay hundreds of dollars for a phone. I’d rather pay $130 for a good condition Pixel 5 that has the features I want, and I can afford to keep a testing phone around or use it as a hot spare, and still pay less than a “new” phone.

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• Alimentar@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or more an excuse to monitor and read app data

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• nevemsenki@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or things like AdGuard.

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have sideloaded apps where the malicious code has been removed (e.g. a Spotify client without ads). I bet this is an attempt to block them.

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• madis@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But… they could’ve already done that with current tools? Not like these change the package ID often.

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  • tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They could, but I think that would be too obvious. Why such system they could flag it at OS level with a big, scary warning and claim it was for security sake.

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