@denzilferreira@techhub.social
Post #2615701
2025-08-26 18:37 UTC
@jumianr@mstdn.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social I understand this. But we are a minority who want to tinker. For Google, the priority is to protect the large majority of Android users from installing apps that are not legitimately packaged by developers who did publish their app on the Play Store. Developers will be able to install their own apps on their devices if developer mode is enabled and via ADB. And a user will be able to adb install an app if compiled with debug keys. The thing here are release keys, which need to match the play store version of legit apps. This also attempts to prevent repackaging of apps with malware. This is the same on Apple devices. I think people are overreacting to be honest. EU also dictated alternative play stores are possible and pretty sure Google will not be able to enforce Play Store only verified apps to install.
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@Chickerino@tech.lgbt 2025-08-26 18:41
@denzilferreira@techhub.social @jumianr@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social this is not a reasonable excuse to remove the freedom that users have to install whatever they want, i would be ok with this if and only if the user was given a clear warning before installing an application and given a choice to do so anyway besides, apps on android are sandboxed, the damage they can cause (notwithstanding any security vulnerabilities) is limited to the permissions that the user gives, if theres any place this would make sense, i dont think its android, especially considering that mallicious apps or just data stealing apps are very common place on the play store anyway