I just want to know what is going to my fdroid apps when this comes in. Will they all get binned? Disabled? Just fail to load until I jump through the new "untrusted" sources hoops?

What gets me is that upstream linux has had this solved by trusting repo keys for years, why not let the end user be the trust arbiter

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[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Because you're not the end user, you're the product.

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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

yes that is the cynical take, and I mostly agree, but installed apks list their install source, so if that information is there, then its simple to give the user the ability to mark said source as trusted. But to do this under the guise of security, when there is more malware on play than fdroid is such a head scratcher

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[–] illi@piefed.social 9 points 4 months ago

Yoy described the current solution I believe.

The more hoops they put in place to jump through, the less people would consider going outside Google Play. And the more control Google has on the ecosystem.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

yes that is the cynical take, and I mostly agree, but installed apks list their install source, so if that information is there, then its simple to give the user the ability to mark said source as trusted.

For now.

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