All Android phones block side loading by default, do they not?
New Samsung phones block sideloading by default
Submitted 3 months ago by MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/enable-sideloading-one-ui-6-1-1-3463446/
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n4utix@lemm.ee 3 months ago
zap12344@feddit.it 3 months ago
It’s in the article : “Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature takes things a bit further.The feature, fully blocks the installation of apps from unauthorized sources, even if those sources were granted the
REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGESpermission.”n4utix@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Damn. Finished the paragraph before it and made the comment. Lol. Interesting. Seems redundant.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So this new update (assuming the update ads this too) i just got today should have killed my revanced apps?
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
But it also shows you a button to go straight to the toggle that lets you enable it when you try to install an app
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I really don’t mind that they hide the button to enable installs from .APK when they are being directly downloaded. It has been in my opinion very bad idea from the beginning that it shows that, it has enabled multiple malwares in android. Non-technical people should not have easy way to install things, even with big warnings, because people ignore warnings.
If google removes the ability to install non-store apps all together, then that day I will stop using Android.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
wasn’t it always blocked by default? Google’s always given a scare alert on sideloading apps, is this just an additional popup or is it replacing the stock one
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
My phone randomly started quarantining basically every app that wasn’t from the play store after my last update, annoying as hell.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That is super obnoxious, but I don’t think it was supposed to do that judging by the article it’s supposed to keep your existing settings it wasn’t supposed to be forced on
LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 months ago
So you need to change two settings instead of one to side load. Seems rather pointless.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Big difference is that that one setting was shown to you with a button press when you tried to install an app. With this, you need to remember or make a screenshot of where you need to go, open the settings app and then go there and toggle it on. It’s just a lot more annoying to do and Samsung probably hopes that that will deter people from doing it.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just standard corporate dark patterns
Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Screenshot? What are you, a goldfish?
filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
…Why? What’s the point? What do they possibly hope to achieve?
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
What’s the problem? you can disable it, and, for example, I don’t want my 80 yr old mother sideloading stuff. It’s not like Apple where you just CAN’T do stuff.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
the problem is the one we’re gonna have in a few years if nobody steps in now and does something
cough cough EU please
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
she already can’t unless she enables sideloading
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And that popup probably scares her away from doing it anyway.
Brickardo@feddit.nl 3 months ago
What in the cock
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
So does macOS, but as long as you can still enable it in settings eh, fine.
pycorax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was prompted during the initial set up of my Fold 6 (Singapore SKU) on whether I wanted to enable it or not though and the option was disabled by default. So something doesn’t seem right here or maybe this is an American SKU only thing?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 3 months ago
As a web dev we do try to accommodate userCSS for accessibility reasons but often font sizes are tuned to what they are for a reason. I’d guess there’s a line height issue here.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
You mean that their font was customized to display a certain size, for whatever reason?
Right,
browser.display.use_document_fonts = 0fixed it, lol.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe a fixed line-height?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
But my usercss enforces font-size: medium for <p> elements but this looks more like x-large. And it works well for 99% of pages.
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Source
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Until some time ago, I always though that “sideloading” is something different. Since I first saw “sideloading” used in ADB, so I thought that it means using another system on the side to install software on a target system.
So to me that seems fitting, but now it seems to be used differently.
stephan262@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve always took side-loading to mean installing from local storage, as opposed to downloading from remote storage. As far as I’m concerned downloading from a third party app store should not be treated as side-loading.