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Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities (androidauthority.com)
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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Ridiculous, mother of bullshit! Switching to Linux appears to be the only option left for a personal computing device.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Just turn off Google Play Protect and it'll let you sideload whatever you want.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can't seriously actually trust that turning it off in the Google owned app they control or update will be meaningful. I'm really sick of people claiming it is, and I hope this will get them to realize that.

    If you want to crush it fully, disable google play store as a whole, and make sure to tell your friends too because if that solution doesn't get more popular there might not be third party apps to install since the devs will just quit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I dunno, you're the one claiming stuff that isn't necessarily true (yet). This is a proposed update to Google Play Protect. You don't have to have Google Play Protect enabled, and disabling it doesn't really impact anything unless you're the type of person to just download an apk from unverified sources.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I keep play protect enabled in case I download anything unsafe.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly we need a community OS like Android/Chome OS

    I like Linux but it would be really cool to have a OS that was less modular and more purpose built. I feel like there is enough people interested that we could raise some money to hire some developers. On think Chome OS and Android get right is the hassle free unified experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's GrapheneOS that I think would try to address this problem — secure, proper architecture, compatible with some major app stack (e.g. Android apps). It's AOSP-based, but they're already thinking ahead up to a point where they would be forced to fork it and even work with OEMs to create their own phone hardware for it. There are a couple of threads on their Mastodon.

    I don't know how much they would be able to achieve, but I would pay for such system.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Graphene doesn't play nice with others

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, unfortunately. It's their con, but also their pro at the same time. It's bad because they end up isolated from everyone else playing nice with each other, and then no one wants to deal with them, but they also don't agree on compromises that might hinder security or the stability and development of their project. And I respect that. That is partly a reason why they created probably the most secure and private AOSP distrubution nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    they don't compromises that might hinder security or the stability

    I call BS on that one. It feels more to me like they are seeking power and control. They could seriously benefit from working with other projects but they don't.

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