Val Packett 🧉

Also hot take but the new #Android sideloading unlock requirements are kinda reasonable. We'd literally need to implement something like that in mobile Linux once it reaches the mass market. (Like actually mass not just a bigger niche.) Scams coercing people into installing malware is a VERY REAL PROBLEM.

Actually psychology research is much needed to properly test how software can try to break coercion like that.. I bet some dedicated scammers would try to guide their victims through the entire 24h delay. But it's probably good against random links and such

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Show threadMoses Izumi4d ago
@valpackett
>having to enable a thing to get 3rd party apps
eh
>24 hour waiting period
genuinely absurd
>expiring apps
pointless (even from a "security through paranoia and constant reboots"-mindset)
proves that Google might as well be run by demons and that they must be dissolved by the end of the decade
Show threadtian29923d ago

@valpackett completely disagree, it's taking away the users' agency and personal freedom.
I trust most f-droid's open apps way more not to have spyware or malware than random 'play store approved' privative apps with dubious privacy requirements.

Why would we should be beholden to G's judgement over the judgement of the owner of the device. Why not just block all apps for 24 instead of letting spyware ridden Fb app to track my every move on my device have a red carpet pass while limiting Foss.