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Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 1 week ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google: "Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands."

Thank god. I would've ditched Android for good if this went through, and while it sounds like it would be annoying for casual users to enable unverified apps, at least we can still install them.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 69 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That's not good enough. They're just going to keep lightly pushing against the bad publicity until everything not controlled by Google on your phone goes away.

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks. No phone competition in the US also sucks. Overpriced Samsung or a Google phone, while companies Like Red Magic have fan and liquid cooled phones with huge batteries, more ram, and more storage, for less than a grand being sold around the rest of the world outside the US.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks.

That goes for MS and Apple on the desktop too, and allegedly Google is trying to enter that space as well for the umpteenth time.

At least as far as PCs are concerned, they're still unlocked at the bootloader level, despite MS' attempts to lock that down, and there's nothing stopping you from installing Linux or BSD on your PC still. Mobile devices outside a handful which aren't locked down, unfortunately don't have that luxury.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. I'm running Linux on all but one of my machines. You at least have the option with most any PC. There's a very quickly dwindling option to do the same with phones.

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