It was something like 70% of all malware originates from the google play store. Yet to make you safe you can't download apps outside of google play.
Lol.
Enshitification intensifies
Its a shit process. If they'd just get rid of the 24h countdown it be bearable. But thats exactly the tactic, isn't it, make it as shitty as you can, then you dial it back just a notch so people feel like that is better, even though it is still worse than the original process.
Android is becoming garbage.
Its just Linux too. This is a very stupid thing and will only accelerate true linux phones becoming popular.
I was wondering when this would come. Even popped open DuckDuckGo and searched for Android news, yet this completely escaped the radar.
I've already removed the verifier and safetycore apps and installed stubs in their place. I also already had Shizuko and now I have gained root access on top of it without unlocking the bootloader.
Google may fuck themselves.
that's why i installed graphene on my phone and turned off updates on my tablet so i'm still on android 15
How is this legal? Serious question, how can it be legal for a company to dictate what I install on my own computing devices?
Dobtngive me the security crap, that is just a cheap excuse
Shit like this is why I run lineage OS and there's a very good chance that my next phone is going to be running post-market OS and not Android at all.
Google would rather block potential competition than attempt to fix their own product.
So the Playstore sucks and it burns too many of their potential customers, resulting in churn instead of retention. Consequently it has seen very little growth since Covid: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/google-play-statistics/ . The potential for growth was there though, as can be seen with the apple app store: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-app-store-statistics/
And as a cherry on top, Google has recently started billing cc chargeback fees to developers. I don't know a single other large digital shop platform that does this. More costs and more administration for Devs, which will make the Playstore even less attractive for hobby Devs with a niche passion project.
Anybody who has an opinion about these things and doesn't just accept everything Big Tech throws at them saw (something like this) developing for years, nay decades, and had plenty of time to move on. So who exactly "hates it" now? I suspect it's the typical Android App developer who always has one eye on monetization and is therefore willing to accept a lot of shit from the OS they're devleoping for until it affects them directly.
Not that I don't agree with them.
once you’ve waited 24 hours, you can choose to allow sideloading for seven days or indefinitely.
I know I'm going against the current here, but I don't think this is a bad change at all. It's a step to protect normies from themselves who, despite how inconceivable it is to fall for this kind of scam, are actually even dumber than that.
I do think it's reasonable to be worried about future changes that further restrict sideloading. It's often how these restrictions are slowly implemented. But where it's at now with this change in particular I'm cool with.
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