Normies keep falling for scams all the time. They fall for scam on windows, over the phone and in person. We generally try to come up with rules that protect normies without overly complicating lives for everyone else. Like I have to go to a bank personally to increase single transaction limit over certain amount but I don't have unlock some secret options and wait 24 hours every time I want to wire money to a new account.

A warning saying "this app is not trusted, don't install it if someone else instructed you to do so" would be enough here. Advanced users should be able to disable this warning. That's it.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

I don’t have unlock some secret options and wait 24 hours every time I want to wire money to a new account.

A lot of services will do the verification step where it sends a few cents to and from a newly linked account which can take 1-3 business days. You only do it the one time. It's a small speed bump that prevents millions of dollars in fraud every year.

To me this change to sideloading is a very similar speed bump. You do it the one time then set it to allow sideloading indefinitely. That's where it's at now.

If they move to extend the delay or strip out the "indefinite" option then yeah, freak the fuck out and grab some pitchforks because that's not good at all. But where this specific change is at I see it as more anti-fraud than anti-consumer.

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