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> People tend to distrust websites.
How did the world come to this when the internet long predated smartphones and so many "apps" are little more than bookmarked wrappers around websites?
> As far as I could tell, they did it by convincing her to install some android app on her phone and then grant that app accessibility permissions.
Did she make it through the non-google play app install flow?
Wouldn't a wait time like 2 hours with some jitter make it more difficult for a scammer to pursue the case? People aren't going to be willing to stay on the phone for hours at a time. With 24 hour wait, the scammer could just schedule another call for the next day.
The one-day waiting period is so arbitrary. Have they demonstrated any supporting data? We know google loves to flaunt data.
Something like Github's approach of forcing users to type the name of the repo they wish to delete would seem to be more than sufficient to protect technically disinclined users while still allowing technically aware users to do what they please with their own device.