Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly

• huginn@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.

  Or even once.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really don’t know how to feel about it

    The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience

    I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.

      But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.

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      • SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most

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• AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just tested it by updating something and it didn’t work, so I would say no, we don’t have background updates on F-Droid.

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