0xedbGoogle details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-de...
At this point I'm convinced that there's something deeply wrong with how our society treats technology.
Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. It's unsustainable in the long run. Also, the last thing this world needs right now is even more centralization of power. Especially around yet another US company.
People who are unwilling to figure out the risks just should not use smartphones and the internet. They should not use internet banking. They should probably not have a bank account at all and just stick to cash. And the society should be able to accommodate such people — which is not that hard, really. Just roll back some of the so-called innovations that happened over the last 15 years. Whether someone uses technology, and how much they do, should be a choice, not a burden.
This has nothing to do with keeping people safe. If it did then power users could continue to install their own software by being given that ability as a developer setting. The fact that some people are gullible enough to go into a hidden setting on their phone and enable that in order to install an app from a random Chinese website is not a good reason to take away everyone's freedom. Consolidation of power is all this is about.
It absolutely has to do with keeping people safe. You not caring isn't relevant.
If Google cared just the slightest bit about keeping people safe, they would stop hosting scam ads as core part of their business model.
Google is on the side of the scammers.
Total nonsense. Google is a large company with different teams that have different goals.
Not shilling, your points are just bad. I could just as easily say "You are one person who makes money, therefor you are always bad". Silly.
Your argument is basically "If the Android team cared about user safety then Google would shut down as a business to support them". It's nonsense.
Google restricts sideloading "for your safety", while their app store is full of scam apps and F-Droid has zero malware. Don't you find this slightly illogical?
Not really. No one targets F-Droid. If they did, there would be malware. F-Droid barely audits packages at all.